The next episode of the Battle of Britain*… tomorrow Arsenal play Manchester United… to be broadcast only by channel… [such and such]
The sirens, the sombre male voice…
This was a Friday night commercial on RMF Classic, the Polish equivalent of Classic FM. None of my friends found it offensive, though they often complain, how misunderstood we are in Europe as ‘history nuts’.
And here we are – the greatest myth of contemporary Britain as a football advert bit, and nobody finds themselves uneasy about it.
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*known in Poland – with no obvious explanation – as the Battle of England
