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This Week 416: Satire Boom, The (1963)
 

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Rediffusion for ITV, tx. 26/12/1963
26 minute item, black and white
 
DirectorRandal Beattie
Production CompanyRediffusion
ProducerJeremy Isaacs

Featuring: Bryan Magee (interviewer); Peter Cook, Michael Frayn, Jonathan Miller, William Rushton (interviewees); John Bird, Bernard Braden (performance extracts)

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A report on the satire boom of 1960-63, typified by the revue Beyond the Fringe, the magazine Private Eye, the Establishment nightclub and the television programme That Was The Week That Was.

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Complete item (26:26)
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SEE ALSO
That Was the Week That Was (1962-63)
Bird, John (1936-) and Fortune, John (1939-)
Bron, Eleanor (1938- )
Cook, Peter (1937-1995)
Miller, Jonathan (1934)
Rushton, William (1937-1996)
TV Satire