Live in London, Brian finds out what makes the British…British. Peter Ackroyd author of, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination explains the appeal of Marmite, warm beer, and Becks and Posh.
Subject Matter
Frances Stead Sellers A former Washington Post Outlook deputy editor, now on leave as an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow researching the evolving nature of national identity on "Britishness" as a political concept
English Major
Peter Ackroyd novelist, critic and author of "London: A Biography" and Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (Doubleday 2003) on what distinguishes the "English" imagination
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