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Brian Lehrer trades the subway for London's underground

A Cuppa Tea and Thou

Friday, November 07, 2003

Live in London, Brian finds out what makes the British…British. Peter Ackroyd author of, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination explains the appeal of Marmite, warm beer, and Becks and Posh.


A Week Argument

Jeremy O'Grady Editor-in-Chief of The Week (UK edition) the news in the US versus the UK and Bill Falk Editor-in-Chief of The Week (US edition)


Subject Matter

Frances Stead Sellers A former Washington Post Outlook deputy editor, now on leave as an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow researching the evolving nature of national identity on "Britishness" as a political concept


English Major

Peter Ackroyd novelist, critic and author of "London: A Biography" and Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (Doubleday 2003) on what distinguishes the "English" imagination



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