Jo and Adam #ChooseToChallenge this International Women’s Day by seeking out and celebrating some of their favourite female satirists from literary history: Mary Leopor and Stella Gibbons.
Especially devoted listeners may also choose to stick around after the closing music for an extra treat.
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In this episode Jo and Adam talk about:
Alexander Pope
American Revolution
Armando Iannucci
Batman (1989)
Brexit
Charlie Brooker
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Covid-19 (mutant variation)
D. H. Lawrence
Donald Trump
Dreams
English Civil Wars
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
French Revolution
Gender Bias
Inequality
International Women’s Day
Jane Austen, Persuasion
J. D. Salinger
Joanna Lumley
Jonathan Swift
Kate Beckinsale
Lady Mary Montagu
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Norton Anthology of English Literature
P. G. Wodehouse
Professor Jane Moody
Room 101
Slavery
Spanish Influenza
Statue to Mary Wollstonecraft
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Stephen Fry
Stephen King
Stewart Lee
Susannah Jenner
The Divine Comedy (band)
The Gentleman’s Magazine
The Guardian
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan