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A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change) (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2015). A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change). Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102

The Radio 4 comedy-drama A Higher Education was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama Don Crookfield (Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately... Read More about A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change).

The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy (2013)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2013). The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy. Comedy Studies, 4(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1386/cost.4.1.5_1

There have been many articles but too few rigorous critiques detailing the naissance and flowering of alternative comedy – a rather loose and undefined term for the brand of ‘non-racist, non-sexist’ comedy of the 1980s. The descriptions that do exist... Read More about The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy.