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The Football Fallacy

BBC Radio 4

Duration: 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Adam Gopnik explains why the English are better at watching football than they are playing it and why the Americans are better at talking about democracy than they are at practising it.

"Call this the Constructive Fallacy of the Secondary Activity - or, perhaps, The Delusion of Mastery
through Proximity."

Producer: Sheila Cook
Editor: Richard Knight. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Adam Gopnik
Producer:
Sheila Cook

Genres

Source: BBC Online

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