Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Works subject to expurgation

An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization, fig-leaf edition or censorship by political correctness is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media. The term bowdlerization is often used in the context of the expurgation of lewd material from books.

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  1. Le Morte d'Arthur

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's epic medieval tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

    10 January 2013

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    Featuring: Helen Cooper, Helen Fulton, Laura Ashe

     
  2. The Arabian Nights

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Arabian Nights - an ever shifting sea of stories across Asia and Europe.

    18 October 2007

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    Featuring: Robert Graham Irwin, Marina Warner, Gerard van Gelder