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  • The Rake

    ON A WING AND A PRAYER

    Oct 08, 2020 3 minutes
    by nick scott

    he process of ‘bowdlerisation’ — the sanitisation/castration (depending on your viewpoint) of fictional material deemed lewd or inappropriate — is a buzzword right now, what with censorship of all kinds being high on the agenda of public debate. It’s nothing new, though: in the 1950s, the first-world-war escapades of Captain James Bigglesworth, written for older adolescents, were expunged of certain adult nuances when a younger readership cottoned on

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