Front Row Late

As new exhibitions of work by the renowned 18th-century satirical artist William Hogarth and the contemporary Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan open, Mary Beard and her panel discuss whether today’s satirists are up to the job of lampooning contemporary politics and society.

Are politicians fair game as targets for satirists? Mary and her panel discuss what it’s like to be on the receiving end of cutting and personal satire.

And is it true that it is almost impossible to satirise the times we are living through? In a time of great political and societal divide, they discuss what the best satire can achieve today.

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