Archive On 4: A Brief History Of Irony

8PM, RADIO 4 Irony was known in the 16th century as the ‘dry mock’, and was a muchfavoured tool of satirists. Joe Queenan delves into its history, with contributions from Ian Hislop, John Sergeant and Barry Cryer, but spends far too much time defining irony, and far too little time dishing it out.