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A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public', written by Jonathan Swift. In 1729, Jonathan Swift's supposed solution to the Irish problem of it having too prodigious number of children, still stands as one of the most powerful, macabre and devastating pieces of satirical writing in the English language. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in May 1980

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