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.

The correspondents, generally, on the Western Front, from 1916 until 1918, were generally kept in the dark and were told what the British military hierarchy or the British Government wanted them to know.

– Author and Historian Ron Palenski on what war correspondents in World War I were told

Key Cast & Crew

Clayton Carpinter

Cinematographer

Vincent Burke

Executive Producer

Ian Hughes

Narrator

Laurie Clarke

Executive Producer

Mark Everton

Producer

José Barbosa

Director, Writer