I'm surprised this "survey" hasn't really got into our press. It's just
the sort of thing that our
bourgeois snob-journos (Daily Mail speciality) would feast on.

 One clue, however, is here "UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000
people." But the questions posed weren't stated.
 
 UKTV Gold is something special. I don't know if there's a US equivalent
- perhaps the Hallmark channel? -
 a populist but  not-watched, all-repeat channel?

 And another aspect of it is that actually a person can have existed and
also be a myth. 
 Churchill is a good example - the myth of indomitablity versus the
reality of black bouts of depression.
 Richard the LionHeart even more so - the myth of good king Richard and
Robin Hood versus the 
 French-speaker who only spent about 2 months of his adult life in
England.
 
 I would be astonished if out of a genuine random sample of people in
England 33% of them would have 
 heard of Biggles, there are no films, and the books stopped being
popular about 1961. 

 So thanks for that, hours of speculation about a "survey" purporting to
be news, but doubtless full of holes.


-----Original Message-----
From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 05 February 2008 14:58
To: Heasman, David; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] OT: In defense of the South


Before you get all snobbish on us, read this one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/wl_uk_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbe
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80204001239

Denys
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