Steve Punt + Robin Ince - Work In Progress Shows

STEVE PUNT has been looking at the news for a living for over thirty years, as a host of The Now Show and The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and as a writer for everything from Spitting Image and Mock the Week to Horrible `Histories. But what - if anything - has he learned?

What lessons can he draw from watching the world change, history unfold, leaders come and go - and trying to be funny about it? Starting out on a BBC typewriter with a pile of newspapers, he has watched the news go 24-hours, digitize, go multi-channel, social-media, AI-driven and often fake to start with. The era of getting our news from papers and major broadcasters is almost over - young people don’t use either of them. And yet, news is our conduit to the world outside our own lives. It shapes our opinions and views. Looking back, sideways and forwards at the 24-hour barrage of information pouring at us from all angles, Steve poses the question - what is news, and should we care? (Answer - after the break.)

ROBIN INCE no longer of Monkey Cage sadly but still the funniest ADHD king. Come see him warming up for Edinburgh.