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David Blunkett has been portrayed in various dramatic or musical forms. Blunkett was featured in Who's The Daddy?, a play by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans, The Spectator magazine's theatre critics, which ran at The King's Head Theatre in mid-2005. The satirist Alistair Beaton wrote the television film A Very Social Secretary, for Channel 4, which was screened in October 2005.
Comedian Linda Smith once described Blunkett as "Satan's bearded folk singer". He is the topic of the song Blindness by Manchester group The Fall. He appears regularly both on news and magazine programmes, including presenting editions of Radio 4’s 'In Touch', and he was the subject of one episode of The House I Grew up In.
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