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the BBC

Thursday, August 18th, 2005 8:58 am

The BBC recently aired a second Victorian lesbian drama based on a novel by one of my favorite writers, Sarah Waters. The BBC made one of the best lesbian movies, ever, in its adaptation of Jeanette Winterson’s “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”. The BBC is opening its archives to the world.

England is a tiny nation. A tiny little island nation. The US is very very big and we have lots of money and lots of people and very expensive bridges in Alaska and very expensive unnecessary wars in Iraq. So why can’t we have a BBC? I’ll trade PBS and NPR for the BBC.

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One Response to “the BBC”

  1. Liza Says:
    August 18th, 2005 at 11:32 am

    You know who else has amazing public broadcasting? South Africa. The SABC does the news in something like 8 of the 11 official languages, and original programming in most of them also.