That Was Satire That Was - Cassette

2 Cassettes, Abridged
Read by Humphrey Carpenter

The '60s Satire Boom

At the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, four young men - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett - walked onto 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 That Was The Week That Was'.

This audiobook evokes the atmosphere of 1950s 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. It is based on original in-depth interviews with most of the key personalities.