EP.4 - Satire & the Visual Image

Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire · Aug 19, 2019 · 21m

Do you need words to do satire? If a picture can say a thousand words, how much satire can it do? Adam and Jo are joined by Wendy McGlashan (University of Aberdeen) to talk about eighteenth-century print-maker, miniaturist and satire merchant, John Kay.

In this episode Adam and Jo and Wendy talk about:

Adam McKay

Beavis and Butthead

Boris Johnson

Charlie Hebdo

David Cameron

Donald Trump

George Osborne

Henry Fielding

Idiocracy

Jacob Rees Mogg

James Beattie (poet)

James Gilray

Jeremy Corbyn

John Kay

King of the Hill

Mike Judge

Private Eye

Richard Herring

Stewart Lee

Steve Bell

Theresa May

The…