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That Was Satire, That Was: Sixties Satirists (HB): The Satire Boom of the 1960s

That Was Satire, That Was: Sixties Satirists (HB): The Satire Boom of the 1960s

by HumphreyCarpenter (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Forty years ago, at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, four young men - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett - walked on to a stage and changed the face not merely of British comedy but of social attitudes in this country. BEYOND THE FRINGE was iconoclastic, fracturing the 'culture of deference' which had predominated in the 1950s. It was the forerunner of an explosion of satire which included The Establishment Club, PRIVATE EYE and the BBC's daring weekly satire show, THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS. Award-winning biographer Humphrey Carpenter evokes the atmosphere of 60's Britain and the social and political conditions which enraged and inspired the satirists, and brings vibrantly alive this amusing but also key period of British cultural life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0753813939
ISBN 13: 9780753813935
Book Overview: First book to cover the subject in this much depth Humphrey Carpenter is an award winning biographer Huge nostalgia market, and a younger generation still fascinated by Peter Cook et al. Based on original, in-depth interviews with most of the key personalities, including Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Richard Ingrams, Barry Humphreys, Ned Sherrin and the late John Wells 'The first detailed, scholarly account of his peculiar episode in British cultural history, and I suspect it will remain the definitive one.' Jonathan Miller 'A book both brilliantly researched and splendidly written' ECONOMIST 'Charts the minutiae of 'satire' in great and often fascinating detail' Jonathon Green, GUARDIAN

Author Bio
Humphrey Carpenter was born in 1946. After Oxford, he worked for the BBC, and then became a freelance writer. He has written numerous prize-winning biographies as well as a highly successful children's book series. He is a regular book reviewer for the Sunday Times, and was the director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1994-6.