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Doonesburyland

January 11th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

I'll see your chummy hikers and your earnest Aussie designers and your Krazy Korean Kids and raise you a famously reclusive US political strip cartoonist happily cornered in his studio by Joe Queenan. I belong to the group (surprisingly quite well represented in this show) that doesn't really get Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury so the history of the strip is really news to me. Quite fascinating (MP3).

Presenter: Joe Queenan
Producer: Miles Warde
Listen: [MP3] [Real]

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3 Responses to “Doonesburyland”

  1. roo Says:
    January 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Was going to post this one too. Excellent show.

  2. Charles Frith Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 1:54 am

    All those years of looking at the comic strip and failing miserably to appreciate it was political satire. I’m feeling rather dim.

  3. » Doonesbury morgado.co.uk Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    [...] Due to listening to a Radio 4 programme about the strip (download of programme available at Speechification.com), I have re-kindled my desire to follow the daily four frame [...]

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