Tag Archives: satire
Filth, fury and the funny way Britain feels about Joe Orton
You never forget your first time. I was 19 years old. I descended into a dark, cramped basement where student actors brought to life a weird, twisted sexual triangle. Going to student drama productions in odd spaces around the University … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Crime and Justice, Culture, Film, Media, Radio, Theatre, TV, Uncategorized
Tagged 60s, crime, culture, dr emma parker, elitism, film, joe orton, john lahr, kenneth halliwell, Kenneth Williams, Leicester, leonie orton, literature, London, prick up your ears, satire, sheila hancock, soft touch arts, tv
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The 70s in brief: If you don’t want it pinched, don’t flaunt it so.
The 70s. WTF. The Channel 4 documentary series It Was Alright In the 70s that aired over the last 2 Saturdays drew on the extremes. Rape jokes galore, and X-rated child safety information films that terrified us. For those interested … Continue reading
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Tagged 70s, culture, feminism, goodies, it was alright in the 70s, media, satire, tessa wyatt, tim brooke taylor, tv
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The only thing I hate more than politicians is puppets: Spitting Image extras
This post has the fun extras from my interviews with some of the core Spitting Image team and one of their targets, for a British Film Institute feature, Spitting Image: Still biting after all these years, about the 30th … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, TV, Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, Birmingham, Central television, culture, David Owen, David Steel, ITV, John Lloyd, Kenneth Baker, Liberal SDP Alliance, Margaret Thatcher, media, Murdoch, Norman Tebbit, Peter Fluck, politics, Roger Law, Roy Hattersley, satire, SDP, Steve Nallon, Swift, Thatcher, tv
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How RBS bankers wiped The Life of Brian rushes: Stories from Missing Believed Wiped
TV archiving is, it turns out, a lot like classic archaeology. “What archaeologists want to find most is the midden – [the dump] full of waste, and ephemera which tell you the most about a society.” Chris Perry ofKaleidoscope … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Culture, Film, History, Media, TV, Uncategorized
Tagged 60s, BBC, bfi, Chris Perry, culture, Dick Fiddy, Doctor Who, Joy Whitby, Kaleidoscope, media, satire, Small Films, Steve Bryant, Sue Malden, Terry Jones, tv
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Oh What A Lovely War Commemoration!
Recently the Prime Minister spoke of his hopes that events to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War would be a “commemoration that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, says something about who we are as … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, History, Media, Music, Politics, Radio, Theatre, Uncategorized, War
Tagged 1963, 60s, BBC, culture, David Cameron, David Kynaston, elitism, Erica Whyman, Field Marshall Haig, First World War, Joan Littlewood, Michael Billington, Murray Melvin, Oh What A Lovely War!, politics, satire, Theatre Royal Stratford, war
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That Was Then, This Is Now – Satire from JFK to Savile
Last night I went to the British Film Institute’s celebration of 50 years of the breakthrough TV satire programme, That Was The Week That Was. (TW3). It featured many of the original cast, writers and modern satirists, and clips including … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Media, Politics, TV
Tagged 60s, BBC, Ian Hislop, JFK, Lance Percival, LBJ, media, Millicent Martin, Private Eye, Rory Bremner, satire, Sir David Frost, That Was The Week That Was, tv, TW3
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