This has an Onion-like irony quality to it. I have never heard of this! I will file this under "you learn something new every day." Can you imagine trying to do something like this in the US? What is the money from the licenses used for?
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
What a useful link, which I'll pass on to my children. They need to practise (we have such officers in Germany too).
ReplyDeleteI am glad you found it so!
ReplyDeleteDid you get the Michael Fish joke? I imagine that did not travel?
ReplyDeleteThis has an Onion-like irony quality to it. I have never heard of this! I will file this under "you learn something new every day." Can you imagine trying to do something like this in the US? What is the money from the licenses used for?
ReplyDeleteRLW: to help finance public TV and radio. Think part of the costs of the BBC, for example.
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