Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow attempt, over twelve episodes, to chart a stable course through some of the most unruly, vulgar, incoherent, savage and outright hilarious works in all of English literature. What is satire, what is it for, and why do we seem to like it so much?

Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, and regular contributors to the London Review of Books.

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