FILM CRITIC WITH BBC BRAINS TRUST
Miss CAROLINE LEJEUNE, | the "fabulous film critic of the Observer" (so described by the Question-Master), was heard recently in two BBC Brains Trust sessions from 2YA. One of the questions discussed was whether it is desirable to allow children of all ages into British cinemas, whereas on the Continent they are excluded under the age of 14 and sometimes 16. Miss Lejeune: This is really a question of censorship, and personally I’m agin censorship. Whether for children or adults, I can’t see that it does anything more than impress~the desirability of the thing that is censored. What is very much required is an alternative to the things which might be censored-if you give people the right things, I don’t think they want to go to the wrong ones. I’m against stopping children, within reason, from learning or experiencing anything they’ve got to come up against in life sooner or later. Other members were in general agreement. "Children are all young barbarians," said W. L. Andrews, editor of the Yorkshire Post, and you can’t cure them of barbarity by trying to give them a sheltered life." Commander Gould: The same sort cf nonsense as this question contains was talked about penny dreadfuls-but I read plenty without doing myself any harm.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 25
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215FILM CRITIC WITH BBC BRAINS TRUST New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 25
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