Are Requests For Asylum Funny?

The Guardian notes that Julian Assange’s legal troubles are now fodder for a new BBC4 comedy called (of course) Asylum. Kayvan Novak will play the Assange character (it’s not clear to me if that character will actually be Mr. Assange or simply be “inspired by” Mr. Assange). Asylum joins a lot of other BBC programming as part of the network’s 2015 “Taking Liberties” season, inspired by the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. 

For more about Magna Carta, check out

J. C. Holt, Magna Carta, 2d ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

A. E. Dick Howard, Magna Carta: Text and Commentary, rev. ed. (University of Virginia, 1998).

A. L. Poole, From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 2d ed. (OUP, 1955).