Trial By Laughter review " Private Eye team's tribute to satirist by Mark Lawson

Watermill, NewburyThe 'blasphemous' 19th-century pamphleteer William Hone is at the sharp end of destructive libel action in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's dramaIan Hislop and Nick Newman, editor and lead cartoonist of Private Eye respectively, have developed a flourishing sideline in plays about forgotten heroes of speaking abuse to power. Their story of a British satirical newspaper printed in the first world war tre…

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