Sucking Up: A Guide to Sycophancy Through the Ages
From Satan sweet-talking Eve in Eden, to Dante’s flatterers and Lear’s daughters... Matthew Gwyther contemplates the consequences of a society sympathetic to sycophancy.
From Satan sweet-talking Eve in the Garden of Eden, to Dante’s flatterers and King Lear’s daughters... history never runs out of sycophants. In this silver-tongued Archive on 4 you will discover how to spot, avoid, or profit from a lickspittle. Journalist and broadcaster Matthew Gwyther hosts, and contemplates the consequences of a society sympathetic to sycophancy.
Only the most attractive, astute, and discerning of listeners would tune into this programme ...
Presenter: Matthew Gwyther
Producer: Jude Shapiro
Executive Producer: Jack Howson
A Peanut & Crumb production for BBC Radio 4
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- Sat 1 Aug 202620:00BBC Radio 4
