3.5. Satire on International Women’s Day

 

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 Leopor, ‘Essay on Woman’ 

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