Tag: Jim Swanton

• We Are All Hypocrites

  Last weekend, I enjoyed the book, Confessions, the autobiography of the broadcaster and journalist, Edward Stourton. You may recall my mentioning him with regard to accents a couple of months ago. Amid all of the tales of his early years spent in various British colonies on the cusp of independence, his prep school (the now…

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  1st Feb 2023

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  Ampleforth College, Avisford, BBC, Books, Cambridge University, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Education, Edward Stourton, Elitism, ITN, Jim Swanton, Keeping Up Appearances, Language, Prep schools, Public Schools, Ray Illingworth, Roy Clarke, Snobbery, Trinity College