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Television

Brainwashed from birth: the cult of the BBC

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

Last week I was on holiday with my family on the Algarve. The good news was that, thanks to the BBC’s widespread availability in Portugal, we didn’t miss out on Murray at Wimbledon. The bad news was that, for the same reason, we couldn’t escape The Apprentice.

But this isn’t an anti-Apprentice column.

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