Banned Camp: Banned Books, Comedy, and Free Speech vs. Censorship
A podcast by Jennifer Davis and Dan Schulz – satirical storytellers, critics of book bans, and irreverent humorists exploring banned literature, challenged books, and other cultural controversies.
225 Episoade
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1984 | Ch. 10 - Love, Lies & Black Market Butter
Publicat: 10.04.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 9 - Flirting Under Fascism
Publicat: 08.04.2025 -
Banned Camp Bonus: The Bookstore Fighting Back—with a Taser
Publicat: 03.04.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 8.3 - Trinkets of the Past
Publicat: 01.04.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 8.2 – You Can’t Buy a Revolution in Half-Liters
Publicat: 27.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 8 - Winston Kicks a Severed Hand and Calls It a Day
Publicat: 25.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 7.2 - The Forced Confessions of the Fallen Trio
Publicat: 20.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 6.2 - Uprising in the Utensil Aisle
Publicat: 18.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 6: Winston’s Worst Date Ever
Publicat: 13.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 5.1 – Hate Week, Face Crimes, and Big Brother’s Lies
Publicat: 11.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 5 - The Ministry of Lunch and Other Nightmares
Publicat: 06.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 4.2 – Winston’s Fake News Factory
Publicat: 04.03.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 4 – Memory Holes: Where Facts Go to Die
Publicat: 27.02.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 3 - The Physical Jerks & Other Dystopian Horrors
Publicat: 25.02.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 3.1 – The Party is Gaslighting You
Publicat: 20.02.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 2.1 - Down with Big Brother (Oops, Did I Write That?)
Publicat: 18.02.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 1.2 - Orwell Predicted Everything Except the Golden Girls Cover Song
Publicat: 13.02.2025 -
1984 | Ch. 1 - Big Brother is Watching (And So Are We)
Publicat: 11.02.2025 -
Slaughterhouse-Five: Page vs. Screen (Crossover with Queer Cinema Catchup)
Publicat: 06.02.2025 -
Slaughterhouse-Five | Ch. 10 - So It Ends, So It Goes
Publicat: 04.02.2025
Love banned books? Hate censorship?Same. You’re our kind of people.Banned Camp is a comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to figure out why they were banned in the first place.Each season, we tackle a new banned book, reading it chapter by chapter and asking: What made someone clutch their pearls and scream, "BAN IT!"? (Spoiler: It’s rarely what you’d expect.) One thing is clear—the people banning these books often haven’t read them. While we uncover some eyebrow-raising moments, nothing truly justifies censorship.Join us—and our listeners, "The Scary Book People"—as we explore the strange, hilarious, and sometimes baffling world of banned books.Past seasons have featured classics like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.This season, we’re diving into 1984 by George Orwell—a dystopian warning that feels eerily real today. From thought control to banned books, its message is more relevant than ever, and that’s exactly why it remains one of the most challenged books of all time.By reading these books, we ask big questions: Why are banned books important? What does “banned” mean? What does “challenged” mean? How do book bans affect students? Are book bans constitutional?Come hang out with us and have some laughs while we dig into the drama behind banned books—you might even learn something cool along the way!
