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THE COPYSNATCHERS
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The Copysnatchers
 Fridays 23:02-23:30 
The habits of the British dissected from a foreign perspective.
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Friday 20 January 2006
11-11.30pm
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David Aaronovitch is joined by three foreign journalists to scrutinise the habits, and manners of the British.  Inigo Gurruchaga, the London correspondent for El Correo, questions his feelings about nationalism; while Ching Ling Chiang from Taiwan shares her enjoyment of life in the UK without an ID card and Vytas Rudavicius from Lithuania explores the British approach to political cartoons.

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Inigo Gurruchaga was born in the Basque town of San Sebastian.  He came to London by bus some twenty years ago to learn English.  He liked London so much that he stayed on and now works as a journalist for El Correo.

Ching Ling Chiang, Chiang is the Correspondent for the China Times a Taiwanese daily newspaper and had lived in the UK for six years.

Vytas Rudavicius from Lithuania, is the London Correspondent for Lietuvos Rytas (Good morning Lithuania!).
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