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Laughing All the Way to the Ballot Box

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Two programmes in which John Sergeant rummages through the archives of political comedy
1: And I Look UptoHim.The 1960s sawan explosion of political comedy, yet in the 1970s it almost disappeared - why? John Sergeant explores how political comedy is unique to the social and political conditions of its time and talks with Ian Hislop about what effect satire has - or hasn t- had. Producer Graham Frost

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John Sergeant
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Ian Hislop
Producer:
Graham Frost
Source: Radio Times

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