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Front Row: Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire

Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire

Playwright Samuel Bailey, sensitivity readers in publishing, making social media satire.

Playwright Samuel Bailey on his new play, Sorry, You're Not a Winner, sensitivity readers in publishing, Munya Chawawa and Rosie Holt on making satire for social media.

Samuel Bailey’s debut play, Shook, about three young men in a young offender's institution, won the Papatango New Writing Prize in 2019, glowing reviews, and a sell-out run.  His new play, Sorry, You’re Not a Winner, explores the social price of higher education. Samuel Bailey talks to Tom Sutcliffe about the cost of great opportunities .   

Amid the current debate about the merits of sensitivity readers - a specialist editor who checks writers’ manuscripts for offensive content, misrepresentation, stereotypes, bias, lack of understanding - we talk to one: Philippa Willets, who advises on disability and LGBT issues, and a writer who has misgivings about the idea, Zia Haidar Rahman, author of the prize-winning novel In The Light of What We Know.

Short form comedy on social media has thrived during the pandemic.  Two luminaries of the genre - Munya Chawawa who came to wider public attention with his musical response to the news of Matt Hancock's extra-marital affair - and Rosie Holt  - her "Tory MP" persona convinced some that she was the real thing - discuss the art of short form satire.

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Jodie Keane

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