Monty Python's Life of Brian that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, a grouping with an evangelical Christian base, of which they knew nothing. Some bans continued into the 21st century. In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year-old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth had finally been lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen royal documentary, "Royal Family". The program was narrated by Ian Holm and Rachel Portman's music was specially composed for the film. The filming took place over 18 months. Before its public air, the Royal Family watched it and approved its broadcasting. The format of the 110-minute film is color and NTSC. A VHS video of the program was released in 1992. The script of the program was later published as a book with the same title. The film was aired on 6 February 1992, the 40th Accession Day of the Queen, and it was also broadcast in more than 25