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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

A history of trolling before the Internet

Mar 17, 2025
19:20

Some of history's greatest trolls existed well before the Internet. Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron and even Shakespeare all loved provoking outrage. The desire to hurt or distract another with words goes back a very long way - and says a lot about the state of a culture.  

  • GUEST: David Rudrum, Author of Trolling before the Internet, An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics

  • PRODUCER: Ali Benton

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