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Open Book Radio 4 On a particularly stilted episode of Bookclub, James Naughtie - in conversation with Douglas Coupland - kept repeating the phrase "Generation X" as though it were a strange, new locution requiring a tiny pause on eidier side while one arranged one's mouth for the pronunciation. Phrases such as "what was it about that particular dichotomy that compelled you?" have always been favourites with Frostrup (to be compelled by a dichotomy is Mariella' s definition of an intellectual), but for Ferris her vocabulary became particularly intense -words such as committed and emotions scattering the battlefield, and her accent, already as studiedly posh as an Edwardian schoolgirl's, clambering up a few notches in the presence of Serious Totty.
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A Touch of Frost
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Radio 4On a particularly stilted episode of Bookclub, James Naughtie - in conversation with Douglas Coupland - kept repeating the phrase "Generation X" as t...See the full content of this document
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