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Margaret Thatcher Ha Ha Ha

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Clive Anderson examines the big event of May 1979 the birth of alternative comedy - and its connections with another development of that year, the election of Margaret Thatcher. He talks to comics from the time, such as Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle , about whether she provoked a new form of committed comedy, and asks, it SO, who had the last laugh? Producer Martin Rosenbaum
Clive Anderson on the birth of alternative comedy: p119

Contributors

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Clive Anderson
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Margaret Thatcher.
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Ben Elton
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Alexei Sayle
Producer:
Martin Rosenbaum
Producer:
Clive Anderson
Source: Radio Times

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