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Sunday, August 27, 2006

The BBC's "Green Book"

"Extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about - Pre-natal influences (e.g. 'His mother was frightened by a donkey')".
This wonderful quote from The BBC's "Green Book", or the Policy Guide for Writers and Producers of Variety Programmes. The Guidelines, which date from the fifties, are extremely, unwittingly, entertaining.

Technorati Tags: bbc, humour, comedy, guidelines, impersonation
Posted by chris at 8:20 pm

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