The Naughty Bits - Free Speech and Sensitive Information

Today, the idea of censorship is still up for debate; does it help to shield the public from a harsher truth, or, can more sinister motives be at play? This episode of The Naughty Bits starts by looking back in history to wartime Aotearoa. Interviews with historians, journalists and former censors paint pictures of day-to-day censorship in the forms of intercepted letters and tampered-with news from the war, political and anti-war propaganda, and misinformation on international events. The episode also presents some strange anomalies from later decades, such as animated film Bambi being banned in prisons.

On the whole, we are a liberal country. We're a modernising, Pacific country in ways which are quite separate from the political processes.

– Investigative journalist Nicky Hagar

Key Cast & Crew

Mark Everton

Producer

Laurie Clarke

Executive Producer

Ian Hughes

Narrator

Vincent Burke

Executive Producer

Clayton Carpinter

Cinematographer

José Barbosa

Director, Writer