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Article: Radio Review
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 25, 1996
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Americans occasionally get very cross with the patronising
British perception of them as a nation without irony - Elaine
Showalter was doing it in the Guardian last week, and protesting
how much better than British sitcoms American ones are. You can
carry this line of thinking too far - the irony in electing Ronald
Reagan always escaped me - but it is fair to say that America has
produced its fair share of irony.
Radio 4 seems to be bristling with examples at the moment: for
the morning reading this week we're getting SJ Perelman's
marvellously overwrought travelogue The Swiss Family Perelman. In
Perelman's world, every bill is an invitation to Marshalsea, every
household tiff a clash of ...