Rude Britannia - Episode Guide

Georgian Britain was openly rude, as the art of Hogarth and Cruikshank and the literature of Pope, Swift, Byron and Sterne shows.

How traditions of satire and bawdy and lewd humour survived the era of Victorian values and thrived in the first half of the 20th century.

How British traditions of satire and bawdy humour continued in the worlds of radio, TV, theatre and comics from the 1960s to the present day.