The Wipers Times

Direct from the West End, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times (Monday 16 – Saturday 21 October) tells the true and extraordinary story of the satirical newspaper created in the mud and mayhem of the Somme. Far from being a sombre journal about life in the trenches, they produced a resolutely cheerful, subversive and very funny newspaper designed to lift the spirits of the men on the front line.

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