A History Most Satirical, Bawdy, Lewd and Offensive
Just a quick heads up that on Monday the 14th June, as part of their Rude on Four season, BBC4 will broadcast a programme called Rude Britannia: A History Most Satirical, Bawdy, Lewd and Offensive. Blurb as follows:
"Series exploring British traditions of satire, bawdy and lewd humour begins in the early 18th century and finds in Georgian Britain a nation openly, gloriously and often shockingly rude.
It includes a look at the graphic art of Hogarth, Gillray, Rowlandson and George Cruikshank and the rude theatrical world of John Gay and Henry Fielding. Singer Lucie Skeaping helps show the Georgian taste for lewd and bawdy ballads, and there's a dip into the literary tradition of rude words via the poetry of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Lord Byron, and Lawrence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy."
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"Series exploring British traditions of satire, bawdy and lewd humour begins in the early 18th century and finds in Georgian Britain a nation openly, gloriously and often shockingly rude.
It includes a look at the graphic art of Hogarth, Gillray, Rowlandson and George Cruikshank and the rude theatrical world of John Gay and Henry Fielding. Singer Lucie Skeaping helps show the Georgian taste for lewd and bawdy ballads, and there's a dip into the literary tradition of rude words via the poetry of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and Lord Byron, and Lawrence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy."
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