Financial Times
Nov 15, 2019 - 5 min
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Downton, Love Island or Bake Off — whose Britain is best?
7 mins | Sep 30, 2019
"We watch them. Need them. Love them. They help us imagine our united kingdom." Be it the genteel Downton Abbey or the racy Love Island, British TV seems to be popular all around the world. Jenny Lee writing in the Financial Times in September 2019 looks at how British TV is an agent of the country’s soft power and global persuasion.
