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Satire and Gulliver's Travels
300 years after the publication of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Matthew Sweet looks at satire, past and present. How can satirists reflect critically and humorously on political events in an age of social media s...
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Satire and Gulliver's Travels is an episode from Arts and Ideas by BBC. 300 years after the publication of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Matthew Sweet looks at satire, past and present. How can satirists reflect critically and humoro...
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Published Jun 12, 2026, 56:43 long, audio available.
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