The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989)

38m
Running Time

July 31, 1989
Release Date

The Blasphemers' Banquet

The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989)

38m
Running Time

July 31, 1989
Release Date

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BBC

Plot.

A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

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Release Date
July 31, 1989

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Released

Running Time
38m

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The Blasphemers' Banquet is a film-poem created in 1989 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines censorship arising from religious issues. It was created in part as a response to the Salman Rushdie controversy surrounding his publication of The Satanic Verses. It was aired by the BBC 1's programme Byline on 31 July 1989.

The verse-film is set at the Omar Khayyám restaurant in Bradford where Harrison is holding a banquet with invited guests such as Omar Khayyám, Salman Rushdie, Voltaire, Molière and Byron.

The film at the time of its airing created a controversy in Britain when then Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie advised the BBC to postpone the showing of the film and the BBC writing a reply to him defending the airing of the broadcast.

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