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Conversations on Kafka
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Kafka and Humour

Award-winning comedian David Baddiel discusses the kinds of humour that operate in Kafka and how laughter and nightmare are often closer than you think
Conversations on Kafka
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Kafka and Comics

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" has been translated into many languages and forms. This podcast explores Peter Kuper's graphic novel.
Anthropology

Profane relations: the irony of offensive jokes in India

Andrew Sanchez (Kent) discusses why a multi-ethnic workforce in eastern India exchanges jokes about each other's religion and cultures as a form of irony (19 February 2016)
St Edmund Hall

On Not Writing

Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee (Honorary Fellow and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) discusses the fantasy that stand-up comedy is spontaneous rather than written, and describes the evolution of stand-up over the last few decades.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 2. Humour

Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series.

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