On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 03:52:35PM +0100, Chris Woods wrote: > I don't think the future will really see any cultural benefit from > twenty years of Pointless or Gardeners Question Time.
People said the same about Dr Who. And I'm quite sure that people said the same in the 1830s about the "penny dreadfuls". Their cultural benefit nearly 200 years later includes the character Sweeney Todd, but more importantly having access to a culture's mass entertainment tells us about that culture things that we wouldn't know if we just looked at what people of quality enjoyed. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like ... Tony Benn -- Margaret Thatcher _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer