September 2019
24 September: Desert Island Books with Redland Library, Bristol
Join the Friends of Redland Library for a panel discussion on banned books with Philip Kent, Professor Madhu Krishnan and Jari Moate. Pay on the door.
24 September: John Osborne’s Under Plain Cover
A reading and discussion of the 1962 play by John Osborne at the British Library in London, which miraculously avoided a ban at a time when attitudes towards sexual behaviour were just turning. How differently would the play’s themes of privacy and public morality be received today? This is a Banned Books Week event in…