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Howard Jacobson deplores the fashion for "whooping" as a mark of approval, and sees it as a species of social blackmail.

"The whoop is on an errand to keep things simple. That which strikes audiences as true because it is what they think already, elicits a whoop."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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10 minutes

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Sun 9 Oct 2016 23:50

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