Culture: Xenophobic Landlord Makes Unlikely Historian ; Are We Sexier Than We Were 50 Years Ago? Is Life More Secure, or Less? And Was the Simpler Life We Led Back Then Really Preferable to Today's Wealthier but More Stressful Lifestyle? Comedy Star and Hell's Kitchen Survivor Al Murray has All the Answers. He Told Graham Keal Some of Them

Birmingham Post › November 25, 2004

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Al Murray's Pub Landlord persona has plenty to say about what it means to be British - or more accurately, what it means to be a boneheaded Englishman with a superiority complex.

Al's alter ego is a tour-de-force in ignorance whose barmy line in bigotry keeps theatres in fits of laughter and front rows in fear of his ebulliently barbed banter. No one who gets picked on for an exchange with the Pub Landlord comes out on top.

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Culture: Xenophobic Landlord Makes Unlikely Historian ; Are We Sexier Than We Were 50 Years Ago? Is Life More Secure, or Less? And Was the Simpler Life We Led Back Then Really Preferable to Today's Wealthier but More Stressful Lifestyle? Comedy Star and Hell's Kitchen Survivor Al Murray has All the Answers. He Told Graham Keal Some of Them

But he leaves the landlord back at his gaff for his latest TV appearance. Al himself reveals what the nation thinks of itself in The People's Poll, a 90-minute survey of our attitudes to sex, class, politics, money and all the essential elements of what it means to be British, showing on UK G2 on Sunda...

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