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Cartoons, Lampoons and Buffoons: Books

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Humphrey Carpenter presents the last of five programmes exploring political satire. Perhaps it is in books that satirical intent has lasted longest in the imagination - Gulliver's Travels, Decline and Fall, 1984 and Animal Farm are all timeless commentaries on greed and power.

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Presenter:
Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
Neil Trevithick
Source: Radio Times

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