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Oct 2021
22m 58s

David Baddiel, Comedian and writer

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to writer and comedian David Baddiel, who has a gift for finding the funny in some of the darkest corners of the human psyche. Now he is taking on our often toxic online culture - is comedy becoming a casualty of the culture wars?

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