Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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10 June 2020 is the fiftieth anniversary of Burgess’s famous lecture, ‘Obscenity and the Arts’, which was delivered to a large audience at the University of Malta in Valletta.

This animated extract, made exclusively for this anniversary, is read by Paul Barnhill and produced by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

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