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Auntie Beeb on Anime
In the absence of an appropriate image, I present an image of
the search for one.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Then I’ll begin.
I was intrigued to hear that BBC Radio 4 would be touching on anime briefly this Sunday evening, although I was rather less intrigued by the fact that the coverage would be on Radio 4’s concession to children’s programming, Go4It. As you can probably tell from the way the title is spelt, Go4It is trapped by two incompatible facts: to attract its target audience it needs to be cool, but it’s on Radio 4, which is not cool.
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