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Is it the best of times or the worst of times to be a satirist? Madeleine Brettingham, a writer on the BBC's News Quiz, joins us to discuss; Toby Lichtig on a new production of Endgame and the constraints imposed on Samuel Beckett adaptations; founded in the 1960s, the Oulipo was \u2013 and remains \u2013 a group of writers and scientists striving for "potential literature". Anna Aslanyan considers the movement's legacy
March of the Lemmings: Brexit in print and performance 2016\u20132019, by Stewart Lee
The Joke is On Us: Political comedy in (late) neoliberal times, edited by Julie A. Webber
Endgame / Rough For Theatre II, at the Old Vic theatre, London
The Oulipo and Modern Thought, by Dennis Duncan
All that is Evident is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963\u20132018, edited and translated by Daniel Levin Becker and Ian Monk
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