View Full Version : How The Great British Baking Show is key to understanding today’s Britain


TMC
12-22-2015, 02:46 AM
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The Great British Bake-Off, as it’s called in the UK, "doesn’t just present a static, zombie image of an ideal Britain that can never exist,” says Tom Whyman. "It defines the nation in a dynamic, living way. The outcome of the contest itself decides the image that the country holds of itself. For the Britain of today, it serves the function of an epic poem.”