Word: bbc
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...Even if FIFA's proposal is unlikely to pass muster, there's evidence that fans are behind the idea. Manish Bhasin, host of the BBC show Football Focus, says that for many English fans, a dazzling side comprised entirely of local players would be a dream come true. "To have that local connection means a lot to your average English football fan," says Bhasin. Statistics support his assessment; a recent BBC poll commissioned by Football Focus found that 56% of respondents favored quotas...
...choices. What happens is, of course, that the squeaky wheel continues to get attention. I have a little tool at my house-you should get one-it's called the remote control. You can go from those channels that are showing too much of Anna Nicole Smith to, say, BBC News...
...Stern.Okay, it might be a bit unbelievable. But it is, in a sense, what radio station WNYC and content provider Public Radio International (PRI) are planning on doing with a new morning talk show program. The proposed show would be a joint venture between The New York Times, the BBC, WNYC, PRI, and WGBH. The show is meant to compete with NPR’s “Morning Edition,” which currently has a stranglehold on morning talk programming. According to a PRI press release, journalists John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji will be hosting the program, which...
...Naipaul now conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched." And Nirad Chaudhuri, in perhaps the least acerbic assessment, is dismissed as a pedant better suited to academia...
...minor" poet? Is the Caribbean really a place of "spiritual emptiness"? Finally one balks completely - at Naipaul's tiresome insistence on referring to the black population of Trinidad as "Negroes," for example, or at his relentless tone of acidity and disdain (India has "no autonomous intellectual life;" both the BBC and Oxford are "provincial and mean and common...