Re: [OT] Re: Lookalikes...
Re: [OT] Re: Lookalikes...
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Lookalikes...
- From: phildobbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:52:49 +0100
On 01/10/2002 18:15, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 10/1/02 9:36 AM, "Camilla" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> From Paul Berkowitz - 1-10-02 03.15 pm:
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>> Yes, right on the mark. (I lived in Britain many years.) It was getting
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>> quite tired by the time I left in '93. Its great years were the late '70s
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>> and early '80s. Is it still limping along?
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> The serious business of rooting out cant, hypocricy, and venality in British
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> public life continues as vigorously as ever, but the overall format has
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> remained essentially unchanged for more than 30 years. To some, that makes
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> it tired, to others, comfortably familiar. It still has teeth, and its
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> current editor keeps it visible by serving as 'team captain' on a
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> long-running BBC news quiz, 'Have I Got News For You'.
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Yes, a great show which started a year or two before I left. Probably
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another reason why i should pay an absurd amount to get "BBC America" on pay
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TV here. I think BBC-2, Radio 3 and 4 are the things I most miss from
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Britain. Even though they too were much weakened in '93 compared to previous
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times (Thatcherism running amok in the BBC long after Thatcher had gone).
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they are still unparalleled elsewhere.
Try short-wave radio and the BBC World Service. My biggest pleasure in life
(well, almost...) is lying on a beach in Koh-Samui listening to the Shipping
Forecast ;-)
As for <spit> Thatcher </spit>, don't go there...
Regards,
Phil.
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"Arms my only ornament - my only rest, the fight."
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote.
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