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   ROBBIE to All   
   BBC CXIII: Shakespeare and Englishness   
   24 Apr 06 10:41:45   
   
   From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   Selections (most from within the first ten minutes) of Shakespeare and   
   Englishness on Radio Three:   
      
      
      
   '.imperialism, anti-imperialism, racial   
   difference, pleas for tolerance to immigration, 'the cricket   
   test'......Islamic debate, US/England Christian Power Block, Catholic   
   Nationalism....Catholic Allusion. similar to today's young radical   
   Muslims....slavery, BBC co-opted into imperial project...slaves, slaving,   
   slavery, imperialism, colonialism, gawping at Indians in glass   
   cases...something deemed good for you by your colonial educators...   
   Africa...India...Julius Narere...colour-coded lives...Romeo was   
   black...narrow sense of Englishness.'   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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