Do you need words to do satire? If a picture can say a thousand words, how much satire can it do? Adam and Jo are joined by Wendy McGlashan (University of Aberdeen) to talk about eighteenth-century print-maker, miniaturist and satire merchant, John Kay.

In this episode Adam and Jo and Wendy talk about: 

During ‘Adam’s Little Game’, Adam and Jo discuss the following images:

Adam and Jo and Wendy also discuss the work of John Kay.

Join Jo and Adam again at the same time next week for:

1.5. Satire and Laughter

Should satire make us laugh? Is satire always funny? Why do we laugh at things anyway? Adam and Jo are joined by Dr Kate Davison (University of Sheffield) to talk about the social history of laughter, and the various satires of the eighteenth-century tavern keeper Ned Ward.