- Series
- The shadow of the lion
- Air Date
- 1968-01-01
- Duration
- 00:28:54
- Episode Description
- The future of the monarchy has been frequently discussed in Britain. This program investigated palace mystique; the diminishing role of royalty, the personalities and the institution; and the place of peerage in the structure of Britain's modern society.
- Series Description
- A documentary series on the influences of change in the United Kingdom (England, Great Britain).
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WFIU (Radio station : Bloomington, Ind.) (Producer)Indiana University (Producer)
- Contributors
- Kinzer, William B. (Host)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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Admit
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the shadow of the law.
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Emerging from a memorable immovable
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task of defining this hour
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a story you can tell this
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is but an apparition yesterday.
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Listen to me.
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It's up
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tempo transition.
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Heard in London misconducts in Coventry in Oxford
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and rhythm off a new revolution in the in
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Britain.
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Programme tend modernization of the monarchy.
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Indiana University Radio a documented essay about contemporary Britain.
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We present the shadow of the lion with William Kinzer as your
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narrator.
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Who today rules Britain.
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It would be difficult to say but one would guess that it really happens behind the
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dingy grey facade of Whitehall that Victorian jungle of government
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offices and ministries whiskery secretaries and civil servants
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diplomats and politicians and to which the world looks for
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indications of Britain's future.
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Beyond
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and across the park facing the mom.
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Amid the high rise heresy of towering office blocks and surrounded by
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traffic. Buckingham.
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Palace.
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Home of the sovereign a symbol of fantasy in an age of
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Commerce and then a third in the utilitarian
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advantage to having a moniker.
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The future of the monarchy has been frequently discussed in Britain in
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pubs in Parliament over cups of tea the country over.
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Geoffrey Marshall a political scientist at Oxford University feels
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that although many complain of its expense royalty is really more
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economical them say the American presidency.
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And as I say that's a utilitarian advantage is at the same time there's a general prejudice
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again. Interfering with the monarchy in this in this country and it's one
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of those things like the House of Lords which since it behaves itself in
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terms of democratic decision making then nobody has any great
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ambitions to overturn it odds are because they can't think of anything they'd prefer instead.
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Nothing in particular is done about it.
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You wonder what the people think about the monarchy and leave
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her in the quiet of a quaint fishing village along the Cornish coast. You talk with the harbor
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master Frankie Curtis in his words.
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All right really doable. We do definitely bowling that night but I mean
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yes we would. I mean we've always been brought up to for a king in the
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grade in the road and I think
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yes we were agreeable of a sort of Him and Him Malcolm
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Muggeridge ponders the question or rather people think about the Monaco You know they turn
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up to see it at the show.
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They make jokes about it in private sometimes all of outtakes.
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I daresay they they they have a certain sympathy with the
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incumbents. They certainly feel as I do myself it doesn't do any particular
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harm. It's all expensive but it's not as expensive as other
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things that we spend money on. It is useful to
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have a symbolic head of state the Queen at
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this moment is entertaining the president also. Well I do. He
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doesn't look dismiss such aggressive exciting sort of a man and it's a rather good thing
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that she takes on that. Job of looking after
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the president. Forster somebody has gone to
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the mystical side of it. The role of the Queen as head of the nation the head
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of the Commonwealth head of the church I don't think means anything to all those people.
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Actually you know I think if the monarchy was abolished tonight very few people would get in
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trouble tomorrow.
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There is in Britain and every day apathy that ignores the
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existence of the sovereign coins are passed in the barter of daily business
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stamps are licked and used without awareness of the portrait they convey. The
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Queen and the consequence of royalty are taken pretty much for granted
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except for certain royal occasions which swell national pride.
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And yet one gathers that there are a great number of traditionalists in Britain
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that if it should ever come to a public decision the monarchy would
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survive. It is in spite of Malcolm Muggeridge as dire
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prediction that it may all come to an end. The average
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British citizen not unlike the citizenry of the world isn't thrown out at the
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pageantry and thrilled at the sight of royalty. But as
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Don I would walk to my Yorkshire school teacher observes it's a
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fluctuating loyalty I should say.
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If for example the Queen went on and. On a state visit to Europe or a
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Commonwealth visit to Australia or something or another he would again be the first one to
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grumble about the Queen having a good holiday. Other countries expense that
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I blame to the fact that the man in the street isn't and why just do the
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rigors of a royal tour and also be the
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Queen's person explains the Wirral to us he thinks he's having a good holiday like he has at
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Blackpool at the country's expense.
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I actually think there are only seven European monarchies left five of
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these being descendants so are married to descendants of Queen Victoria the
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matriarch of Europe. Only in Britain is there still a monarchy
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on a grander scale complete with religious processions courtiers
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mass adulation and above all a full blown title
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ever stuck recy. Yet for many it seems an outdated
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institution full of trappings and traditional doings reminiscent of
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Britain's past. Modern Britain has come to look at the personality
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rather than the institution or so at least as the feeling of Geoffrey
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Marshall in Oxford.
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If you look back at the 19th and 18th centuries
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you can see something quite interesting that I think today we what one does get
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in the British set up is far too great an
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adulation for the actual incumbents of the office that actual people
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involved and too little respect for the institution and the 980
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ventures the situation reversed in the sense that people could perfectly well respect the institution of
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monic a world having no respect at all for the actual
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incumbent. I mean a lot of British monarchs are either mad or
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immoral and nobody minded saying so.
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The company today of course is her most excellent Majesty Elizabeth the
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Second by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
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Northern Ireland. And over other realms and territories queen head of the
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Commonwealth defender of the faith solver of the British supporters of my twin.
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She is the 40th monarch since the Norman Conquest. She is said to be
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shy conscientious painstaking. A close friend of hers is
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journalist author Dermot Mora who has written several books about the monarchy.
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He speaks of her life in Buckingham Palace as Exhibit A mystic gaited as a
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project many kids go she's forced to live a great deal of rugged life in
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public. Indeed that is the way of the the means of the moment is
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kept up you must be you've got to be disabused and a model
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of what you may call the the national ideal of
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domestic life but what you've got to expose a good deal of my private life to
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public scrutiny.
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But Dermot Mora will freely admit that there is an element of mystery
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involved a great deal of secrecy surrounding the monarchy.
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MR It is if it's actual.
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I think it was the great war the better to read about I did you have to go that it would be
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wrong to let you know they lied about magic and the magic is
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maintained in the silent sandstone base building to which tourists
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come to peer at from behind an iron picket fence. Buckingham Palace.
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How awesomely Still it seems. Only the passing traffic the murmur of the
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crowd the measured beat of a marching sentry built as a huge
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hollow rectangle much of the palace is hidden from view. And because the front
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rooms are uninhabited except on a few state occasions the palace seems all
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the more formidable and faceless. But each morning at 11:30 in the
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palace forecourt there is color and sound.
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The changing of the guard and afterwards after the
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crowd disperses and the pigeons flutter back beneath the eaves of the palace.
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One might linger and wonder what it's like behind the palace walls.
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Dermot Moore knows let him tell you we're going
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to go in Madrid by the what is called the privy preventer. They
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did fail at the right hand engine as you pleased about it. Who knew that long
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car door consists of rooms occupied
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by pet is permitted to push buttons. The private federal
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prisons secretary the keeper of the pre-birth
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the money buys most of the House would sort of war above that
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in the grade or above that open out of the code on the first
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floor are the small rooms of the Queen
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and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Actually the palace has 600 rooms half a mile a quarter was cleaned
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by hundred cleaners. Forty acres of garden kept by nine darkness
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and a leak large enough to swallow the whole of Barkley Square.
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Then on the far side and seated
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behind the front would you see
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the mixed side of the square contains
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the State Departments the offices have dictating machines and intercoms
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with a row of names and the one in red saying the queen.
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The third would you approach by the visitors engines and contains.
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Various rooms are occupied by people like that in waiting iniquities
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and so on and I'm quite certain I don't know that fact about us at all but I'm on the
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top floor they used to have been the answer is up there and they're just
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not used to have whole rooms up there before she married.
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There are more than 300 clocks in the palace. Several TV sets exempt
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from license of course and maintained by the Royal electricians.
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As for the decor Well it's been a good deal and brightened up a
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belated use through the use of your terrible believes of regular wallpapers I
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found it trying to the eyes. There's a good little That's from predominance of
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red now it's always a good deal being repainted in general like colors
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as to be expected.
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There exists the influence of every tenant from Queen Victoria to
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Elizabeth the Second.
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The isolation of the Palace makes it almost a world apart and island
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observed from a distance. We're courtiers act as a cushion between royalty
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and reality. The queen is relieved of all awkward encounters and
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Mundine duties.
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Ladies in waiting for instance accompany the queen everywhere answering telephones picking up
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handkerchiefs arranging payments and chops for the Queen never carries
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money. Her entourage helps to enhance her remoteness but
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since she and Prince Philip must have with him always a dresser valet a chauffeur
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and one or two detectives entertaining the royal couple can be quite a
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commitment.
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You did it but I had to guess because it would be good to him to day in the green
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without making rather a splash about it. She might wish to be
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dated but in bodies that infect anybody except most
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intimate friends who would
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feel they must make a great to do about it.
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Our song The Queen molds in a self-contained
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circle of titled and we'll feed friends. But her social contact these days
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may extend beyond the periphery of her fairyland existence. The Queen and the
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prince quite often give informal luncheon parties to meet cricketers are
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diplomats or business man. And she never gives the impression of being in an
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unhappy isolation.
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Rather. Her world seems complete.
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Inside Buckingham bettas seat as he runs his show isn't it. I was right.
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Does she want to do the menials for example or if you want
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but she only that insists on spending at least one out a day in that outfit with the children and the
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joining of her favorite hole.
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As was Queen Victoria's is Balmoral the great granite Victorian
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castle in Scotland. Nine weeks out of every year the queen retreats from
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public to walk ride or shoot and generally relax in the
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seclusion of its great estate and I.
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Was lucky. Lord.
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The rule of the monarchy in modern Britain is pheed and vulnerable.
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A subject of considerable debate and criticism. And while an air of
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influence still abounds with its accompanying ritual of respect the fact
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is well known that the direct power of the monarch has diminished since the reign
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of King George the sixth the queen act in England on the advice
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of United Kingdom as does and in a message
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sent by the Queen is a quote dictated by her Prime Minister author and
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expert on the monarchy.
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Dermot Marr I would remind you you most I think keep on distinguishing between the
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Purina Queen's POV which is what is small and the green influence which is
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substantial and group would agree because you see she is
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there all the time. Ministers come and
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go. She said as as her reign progresses you acquire
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more and more experience. She was always being consulted on any
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great men great matter would have news was going to carry through.
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If they give her a formal constitutional advice to do this
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that or the other she is bound to take it. But before we give her that advice they've got
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to explain everything to her and she can put her point of view and she can persuade
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them for all they were ready. It is the minutes of advise
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and the queen acts on that advice. The real fact is that the
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queen advises the Minister may or may not act on the advice
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achieved the queen insists on being kept informed.
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A red box is delivered to Buckingham Palace with all Cabinet minutes and papers
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and whether the sufferer Nucingen Balmoral Windsor or in Austria she is
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notified of vital decisions and issues and when in London she
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receives her Prime Minister every Tuesday night for a face to face chat.
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Despite its diminishing role in the running of the country the monarchy is
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not entirely immune to national crisis and concern. And with
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each passing year its mode of resistance to modern pressures seems
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to narrow. Indeed certain royal personalities have helped to bridge the
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gap between the magical make believe and the practical sphere of the outside
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world. The most notable of course has been the Duke of Edinburgh Prince
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Philip. He has been a godsend I think the Prince Consort has won the
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admiration of almost everyone for as one Englishman put it
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He's a man's man. He writes his own speeches appears on
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television. Please Poland presents a formidable figure to complement the
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feminine grace of the Queen. He's outspoken offers an initiative
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and tries very hard to identify himself with the future.
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Peter Walker explain what you've read about has taken a tremendous interest in
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scientific and technical advances in the new management techniques and
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industry and improved labor relationships in all these modern problems for a
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number of reasons the monarchy today he seems closer to the realities of the
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world but royalty still remains the pinnacle of class structure.
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The standard bearer of the aristocracy.
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Rules Britain would not have been difficult to answer that question in the
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18th century for the country's then was ruled by the ruling classes
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specifically the monarchy and two principal families by the end of the
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century and dominance had distinguished or rather select group of some
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one hundred and fifty prominent people today because of political
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expedience because of land and possessions or national prestige was the number
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of titled individuals has greatly increased by the mid
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sixties. There were over 900 hereditary peers in Britain
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indeed over half the Peerages that exist deep from
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19 0 6 or later.
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Oh and to learn more about this aspect of British life
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you take a train to Kingston on Thames which is just up the river from London.
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They are in an unlikely office over a betting shop. You meet Patrick
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Montague Smith editor of Debrett's Peerage. He apologizes for
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his crowded accommodations and explains that it's only a temporary location
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and then he tells you about his publication as a.
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Work of reference. We can trace back to the
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periods which came out in the reign of troth and then went through various
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hands under various name until John de Brecht friend
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of a French family became editor and subsequently proprietor.
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He died aged 22 and he gave her the name phone. It was of the
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new parish and then he called it a bright parrot in the name of time.
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Everything in this book published annually provides a record of the leading elements of
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Britain's aristocracy the peers baronets Knight age and the companion
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age.
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Originally as I say they had a third of it to do for King to get that
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title and when their titles became hereditary it was NATO
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different form who succeeded. It's very different from the continent in
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most continental countries you've got a sort of ennoble class that in
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this country it's never been restricted into a separate
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compartment of life in other words you could rise from from the bottom
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to the peerage editor Montagu Smith explains how a title is
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inherited.
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A soon as a man dies the success
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furnishes proof his birth certificate to show his
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son of his father his father the marriage certificate shows he's the
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Testament. Then he will receive a writ of summons to attend the House of
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Lords take the seat. And of course now we have the system of
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disclaiming periods that is if the throne doesn't wish to
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take. His spirit she have a method by
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which he spoke for his life time and when he dies
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his brain will have the choice of whether
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he wishes to remain a peer or to claim his title.
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He's referring of course to the new period to be able of 1963.
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Actually no titled person is allowed to sit in the House of Commons. So
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prior to the passing of this bill any member of the house receiving the periods
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had to give up his seat. Patrick Montague Smith reminds you that there are
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lords sitting in the House of Commons but these possess courtesy titles
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or happened to be Irish peers who are not allowed to sit in the House of
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Lords.
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Ah yes. How does our Lord.
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And that extraordinary assembly of Duke's servants marquees by
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cards barons bishops and judges who are the way the hours in their
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club like the atmosphere or amble occasionally from an empty room to chamber
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to indulge the privilege of being Britain's. Second legislative body
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and house of the Lord with its dark room is embellished
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with graphic woodwork and a card to ceilings and a curious charm that
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transcends its unimportance
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by House of Lords which pays Piers four and a half guineas for a
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tempting but needs only three for a quorum and which act only
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on bills of choice or supreme need which can do no more
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than delay a bill one year or in the case about money below only
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a month.
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The House of Lords as observed by Malcolm Muggeridge
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it's a convenience of politik because it enables it
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enables you to reword. Machine
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politicians without bribing them I mean in America have to be bribed. Yeah
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you can give the peerage. It doesn't cost anything and it keeps them happy. It's an
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inexpensive method of buying off inconvenient political supporters.
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As a status symbol to be sure is even more attractive today and upper
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class ambitions are perhaps more in evidence now than ever before.
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Despite the popular picture of the almost bankrupt aristocrat
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oppressed by the social front he must maintain possessed of a crumbling
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mansion and plead by death duties.
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But I don't think one should shed too many tears over this. I mean I don't think the landed
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aristocracy although one sort of see spectacular examples of
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the old X O Lord Y surviving by showing people around his
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country seat and half a crown or a shot. I don't think these are
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the tip of the iceberg I don't think on the whole bit. The remnant of the
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landed gentry admitted doing two bad ones badly one way and another.
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Yes as Geoffrey Marshall explains there are ways to circumvent
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death duties to preserve the country estate through the National Trust to
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maintain that era of Ascot rules Royce's and townhouse
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luxury.
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And so the long standing drama of British aristocracy still unfolds
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in that tight little island accessed by economic EU.
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Who rules Britain cogwheels a government of
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diplomacy and power in evidently termed this day in the environs of
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Whitehall doning street or the Palace of Westminster. And though the
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queen graciously arrives by royal coach each year to open Parliament the
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distance between the palace and this political world seems increasingly
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remote. OK usually even criticism is heard as in
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1065 when a member of the House of Commons arose to question the
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official sanction of princes Margaret's visit to the United States. Yet
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regarding the same visit to New York Herald-Tribune felt she had represented the British
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crown with a fine combination of majesty incest and added.
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The Crown has proved itself for a senior adaptable and useful as an
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essential source of stability in the gym scene as a focal point for Commonwealth
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loyalty as a personification of British
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I.
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From Indiana University Radio we have presented the modernization of the monarchy
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program 10 in a special series of documented essays about contemporary
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Britain entitled The shadow of the lion. As written and produced by
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liberal a bad time and then a writer was William Kinzer production assistant John
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Hopkins. The engineer builder program consultant David canard.
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This is done to make speaking.
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The shadow of the lie and there's been a series made possible by an Indiana University
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faculty research grant and there's a presentation of Indiana University
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Radio.
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