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Interesting: British Ancestry on TV this summer

Free DNA test for fans going to Newcastle game

by Rupe on 4/2/03 at 16:12 this is story 479 of 489 in this topic to date

One of the weirder requests we've received at Arseweb....
Gooners travelling to the Newcastle game at the weekend are invited to apply for a free DNA test. Here's the deal:

Outline Productions have been commissioned by the Discovery Channel to produce a major new documentary series presented by comedian Eddie Izzard, which examines the historical origins of English national identity. The series celebrates the fact that 'The English' draw on a two millennia-old melting pot of cultures, peoples and ideas in order to define who they are....

http://www.arseweb.org/www/newsreel/t8i479.html

Who are we?
Izzard show to probe British identity

Eddie Izzard is to host a TV series about the English national identity.

The series has been commissioned by the Discovery Channel for broadcast in the summer.

Tom Adams, of Outline Productions, told Newcastle's Sunday Sun: "The series looks at the fact that the English draw on a 2,000-year-old melting pot of cultures. Four groups of invaders - Romans, Normans, Anglo Saxons and Vikings - left a cultural identity.

One of the programmes will examine the clash of north versus south - at a Newcastle vs Arsenal football match.

Adams said: "We will look at the effect of Viking ancestry on [the Toon Army] behaviour, and see if their is any truth in the stereotypes like Northerners being hardier and friendlier."

Izzard is known for his interest in cultural identity, especially in how it relates to a single Europe.

January 26, 2003

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/jan03/izzard.html

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