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Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC

Straw Dogs (1971): on its initial release, the BBFC asked for cuts to the rape scene and other violence. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) denies…
PUBLISHED: July 26, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2589 words)

Is democracy finally coming to Burma?

At around 10am one morning earlier this week, a dazed and haggard man in surprisingly clean blue convict's fatigues walked out of Insein jail on the outksirts of the Burmese city of Rangoon. Tang…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1918 words)
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