American Ambivalence
Will Self looks back over 2012 and reflects on the confused relationship between Britain and the US. Love and hate, he argues, are there in equal measure.
Will Self looks back over 2012 and reflects on the confused relationship between Britain and the US. Love and hate, he argues, are there in equal measure.
Taking as his starting point the Tom Stoppard plays his American mother took him to see in the 1970s, he says our relationship with our friends across the pond has changed little in 40 years.
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
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A POINT OF VIEW: THE BRITISH AND THEIR BIZARRE VIEW OF AMERICANS
We lap up their culture, adopt their economics and are obsessed with the "special relationship". So why do British people have such a confused - even negative - view of Americans, asks writer Will Self.
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Read Will Self's article on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News website.
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- Sun 6 Jan 2013 08:50Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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