Watch Pope and Swift: Literary Road Trip with Frank Skinner and Denise Mina

2023
1 Season

Frank Skinner and Denise Mina follow in the footsteps of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, two of the most brilliant humourists in the history of literature and discover how they created a new wave of British satire which still influences comedians and writers today.

Pope and Swift: Literary Road Trip with Frank Skinner and Denise Mina is a series that ran for 1 seasons (3 episodes) between September 27, 2023 and on

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3. Episode 3

October 11, 2023

Frank and Denise explore the final years of Pope and Swift's friendship as Swift returns to England to spend a glorious summer with Pope resulting in their definitive satirical works, Gulliver's Travels and The Dunciad.

2. Episode 2

October 4, 2023

Frank and Denise discover how Pope became the superstar poet of the age and travel to Ireland, to find out how Swift's inciteful political satire turned him into a national hero.

1. Episode 1

September 27, 2023

Frank and Denise meet with Private Eye editor, Ian Hislop to discover how Pope and Swift created satire that still influences comedians and writers today and go underground to explore the remains of Pope's famous grotto on the banks of the river Thames.

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