Times cartoonist Peter Brookes: A life in ink
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Cartoonist Peter Brookes looks back on some of the more memorable images of his almost 30 years at The Times, and walks us through his creative process.
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Guest: Peter Brookes, Times cartoonist.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:56.2 | It's been a long year, with shortage of news as it finally draws to a close |
| 1:05.9 | we thought we'd speak to one of our colleagues at the Times who's immersed in the news |
| 1:10.4 | every day but has to find new ways of looking at it. |
| 1:15.0 | Someone put it that it's assassination without the blood, |
| 1:19.0 | which will be a pretty good way of doing it |
| 1:21.0 | when you're going for a target, say a politician in a particular way. |
| 1:26.0 | Peter Brooks has been the cartoonist for the times for almost 30 years now. |
| 1:30.7 | He tells us about some of his favorite cartoons and why drawing them is almost therapeutic at the end of 2020. |
| 1:38.0 | You have to put your own anger, humour, whatever it is you're feeling at the time. |
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