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Cartoons, Lampoons and Buffoons: 3: Broadcasting - the Home of Contemporary Satire?

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A five-part exploration of political satire.
Certainly from TW3 onwards through Not the Nine O'clock News, Week Ending, Spitting Image, Saturday Live and many others, radio and television have kept the satirical torch burning.
Harry Thompson remembers the boom times and the bad times, and wonders where the right-wing satirists are now.

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Producer:
Neil Trevithick
Source: Radio Times

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