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Michael Gove, UK Education Secretary:
I wonder if a series such as Blackadder could be made in China? Could there be a satirical programme about the CCP? Or would the writers, such as Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, end up in the labour camp for writing such things?The conflict [ The First World War] has, for many, been seen through the fictional prism of dramas such as Oh! What a Lovely War, The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder, as a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite.