There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works ...

Kate Winslet to Robert Downey Jr to Pedro Pascal, it is a star-studded list of shows that should not be missed ...

Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with ...

But in the mid-1950s, just as Ealing Studios wound down, they picked up the baton of British comedy and created a series of ...

Between 100 and 127 AD, he published five books containing 16 satiric poems. The Satires, as they became known, attacked cruelty, foolishness and the corruption of Roman society. The most famous ...

Leeds International Film Festival has been running for decades and has shown hundreds of films from around the world ...

In their second episode, Colin and Clare look at the dense, digressive and often dangerous satires of John Donne and other poets of the 1590s. It’s likely that Donne was the first Elizabethan author ...