Free Thinking - Satire and Gulliver's Travels
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300 years after the publication of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Matthew Sweet looks at satire, past and present. How can satirists reflect critically and humorously on political events in an age of social media saturation and at a time when reality can seem stranger than fiction?
He is joined by:
Andrew Hunter Murray, comedian, writer and host of Radio 4's The Naked Week. His new book is Bad Deeds.
Jan Ravens, actor and impressionist, known for her work on Spitting Image and Radio 4's Dead Ringers
Rosie Holt, actor and comedian. Rosie's shows Churchill's Urinal and Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens have landed! will both be at Edinburgh Festival.
Tom Peck, Parliamentary sketch writer for The Times
and
Siôn Parkinson, artist, Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and 2026 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker.
Producer: Eliane Glaser
Published on Friday, 12th June 2026.
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