Punch magazine was hugely influential on my life, and it introduced me to the theatre, art, satire, cartoons, and anarchic thnking in general.
RIP.
"The pen isn't actually mightier than the sword - the sword will destroy all pens in time - we don't lie in our beds trembling in case Iran gets hold of a bottle of ink." - Alan Coren.
No obituary as yet, so linking to this recent past profile of the great man ...
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Alan Coren - that affable raconteur was born in London in 1938 and has been a part of that institution of laughter and satire for many years.
After an education that spanned Wadham College, Oxford, Yale and the University of California he became a firm part of the BBC's News Quiz and Call my Bluff.
But it is with his editor's hat of Punch (from 1978 - 1987) that he spoke to the Politics Show...
"The first thing to say is that political cartoons aren't important and are important, David low says, wonderfully, 'I never drew a line that made a difference.'
Continues ...
BBC NEWS Programmes Politics Show An interview with Alan Coren
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