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SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
12-13-2003
Interview: Peter Ackroyd discusses his new book, "Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination"

Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

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England can be persistently damp and gloomy. It's an island often estranged from the body of Europe and remote from America. English people can seem a little gloomy and remote themselves, which may be why they have such accomplished imaginations, and the English imagination has helped shape Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Austen, Milton, Pinter, Osborne, Gilbert and Sullivan, Benjamin ...

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