Fond as I am of making connections, here’s an extensive series of posts on various aspects of being English:
- Watching the English
- also from Kate Fox, Headline punning
- All things considered
Some bygone sounds:
- The Archers
- Desert Island Discs, and
- By the sleepy lagoon
- The mantric Shipping forecast
- Compton Mackenzie meets Henry James
- Hancock’s half hour
Also
- A great annual ritual: Wimbledon—including yet another classic theme tune
- Gender and class: Awdry and Blyton
- Alan Bennett on hypocrisy, and on
- Going too far
- Roll-call
- Morris dancing, with Chinese parallels
- Das Land ohne Musik
- Cunk on Britain
- A Shakespeare mélange
- this succinct take on regional division
- some posh English twits
- challenges to communication
- How to be English apud Stewart Lee (“I’m English, I’m English! Wanna make something of it?”)
- Replies from the Complaints department
- The global art market
- a national treasure: the voice of Charlotte Green
- The Full English.
I also note this group of posts on intrepid British explorers:
- Alan Bennett overhears a Torquay couple in Egypt
- The ascent of Rum Doodle
- How to wear yellow well, with the great Ronnie Ancona
- Visiting a young “living Buddha”
- Morgan‘s mum is unimpressed by Greece
- Still with Greece: Bunnios masters not quite the right language
- The exotic travels of Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Return of the Prophet (not), featuring the ever-readable Nigel Barley
—and, with serious respect,
You can find more from Messrs Bennett, Lee, and Cunk under their respective tags in the sidebar.
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