Monty Python in Aberystwyth Page #5
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- 2009
- 28 min
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after a long day's work
and I was watching Richard and Judy,
as one does,
and who was on it but John Cleese.
He was talking about his films
and all the rest of it
and he happened to speak about
The Life Of Brian.
And he said, "You realise it's still
banned in some towns in Wales?"
It got me thinking.
I knew Sue Jones-Davies
appeared in the film.
It'd make a great story if it was
indeed banned in Aberystwyth.
I went through
all the necessary research
and as far as we were aware,
at that time.
The local BBC reporter rang me up
and said,
"Do you realise you're a mayor
of a town
"of which the film you starred in,
or was in, has banned it?"
And I said, "No, I didn't know that".
"I've looked into it," he said,
"and it was banned."
I thought it was a fantastic story.
It just made it that Sue was
the mayor of the town.
sparked off a Facebook campaign
and a student
who was running that campaign
went to the National Library of
Wales here in Aberystwyth,
did some research
through some old newspapers
and discovered
that it was indeed shown in '81.
Is this some kind of joke?
But we're not really sure
why it was shown in '81
and not in '79
when the film was released.
Not many people even knew
it had been shown.
We thought it'd been banned
for 30 years
and the ban was still in place.
And eventually so many people came up
to me in the street and said,
"Go for it, Sue. Show it again."
So we did.
Just this extraordinary sequence
of affairs
that Sue has been in the film
and ends up Mayor of Aberystwyth
and hopefully the film can now be
released in Aberystwyth.
We hope mayors all over the country
who are still resisting the film
will take Sue's example
It kicked off the idea with Sue
that it would be a good idea
to almost borrow
this legend and use the situation
to generate public enthusiasm as a
fundraiser for her mayoral charity.
Sue told us she'd got permission
to show the film
and she'd like to do a special event
here and we said yes.
she said, "Shall I ask Terry?"
And that happened. Terry asked
Michael and it all snowballed
and got completely out of hand,
really.
It sort of turned into this big, big
special event
that none of us envisaged it would
be. But it's quite exciting!
And so the plan was formed.
On the 28th March 2009,
the university arts centre
would screen The Life Of Brian
for the first time ever
in Aberystwyth.
Well, apart from a few days in 1981.
in the town
who thought the ban should stand,
including the vicar,
Canon Start Bell.
The film, at its root,
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