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World Service,16 Jan 1997,8 mins

Dear Jane Austen

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Listeners point out Jane Austen did not write Middlemarch (by George Eliot) as stated in Britain Today, the John Peel show is both lauded and condemned, and a listener from France questions the need for a 24 hours news service. Lastly, a listener in Israel accuses the BBC of anti-Israel bias, and a listener from new Zealand accuses the BBC of anti-Palestinian bias.

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