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...wrong--I love public radio. I rely on the BBC to relay the increasingly distressing news of our world in soothing British voices. I need NPR to inform me of my elected representatives' latest antics. I have been known to stand and applaud when Nina Totenburg lands a particularly well-aimed barb on Speaker Newt. (Not that it's particularly challenging to make fun of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, but that's another tirade...
...evade the ramifications of the freeriderproblem, WBUR attempts to persuade listeners thatthey have actually entered a contract to pay fortheir programming. Thus the following post-showpatter: "I hope you enjoyed the BBC broadcast wejust heard. And I hope you realize that that theBBC charges us hundreds of thousands of dollars tosubscribe to their services. Now weeeeeee spendthat money for that service because youuuuu toldus youuuuu wanted it. Weeeeee take that risk, andyouuuu owe it to us to make those telephonesring...
...since had to cope with the symptoms of contact celebrity. He receives 15,000 letters a year; invitations and requests arrive daily. An assistant who handles this traffic is currently turning down lecture bookings for the rest of 1995. A good chunk of Sacks' time goes to the BBC, which is preparing a series about...
...time. His charming anecdotes of life as an English country vet tapped into the urban reader's apparently bottomless appetite for pastoral simplicity and infirm animals; All Creatures Great and Small, published in the U.S. in 1972, made Herriot a literary sensation-a status further enhanced by the popular BBC series based on his work. His 20 books were eventually translated into 20 languages. Meanwhile, British veterinary schools became swamped with applicants, and Herriot's practice in Thirsk (Darrowby in his books) was besieged by tourists attracted by the aggressive marketing of North Yorkshire as "Herriot Country...
Liddy, Magruder, Dean and the rest were back, 20 years older, to tell what they knew and when they knew it. The BBC interviewers elicited candor, several fresh revelations and, in five compelling hours, a definitive account of the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency...