Even though Lucinda dreamed of being a writer, she dutifully trained to be a teacher in a 'proper' job. her frist inroduction to the media was working on the English language serice in Benghazi, Libya. Then, sadly it was back into the classroom. She was not to know that getting fired from her teaching post, then crashing out at an audition at the SABC, would lead to writing radio scripts on domestic livestock about which she knew absolutely nothing. Thus began a whirlwind of writing, pre-producing and directing programmes on a miryiad of subjects.
What you see on television, sometimes bears little relation to the truth. This collection of incidents will make you both laugh and cry. It lifts the lid on the media and tells the truth.
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GeneralTruth Lies and Propaganda has reached #1 in genre in both the US and the UK.
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Those future contestants who had tuned in to assess their chances of showing off in the later rounds began to rebel. They protested that if I thought they were going to make fools of themselves in front of the whole community, I was very much mistaken.
To everyone's horror, the final, was won by a snotty young man who was over in Libya, lecturing at the Garyounis University in some bizarre subject. It always seemed to be the case that he got the easy questions as well, the ones we all knew. Even I was aware that the lead in pencils is not real lead, so what was it? I asked him.
“C, with a hexagonal dihexagonal dipyramidal crystal symmetry, under the Strunz classification of 01.CB.05a,” he answered with a decided snigger.
I mean you can see what we were up against can’t you? But I had him this time.
“Wrong!” I chortled. “Anyone else know the answer? Julia?”
“It’s not lead, but graphite,” she replied with a huge smile.
And then the fight started. It appeared that Big Head had quoted the chemical symbol for graphite, C, which it shares with diamonds and soot, and so to be quite clear, he had included its classification in his answer. I tried to stand firm.
“Sorry, I am only allowed to accept the answer I have on the card,” I said cheerfully.
“It’s my point, and I want it,” sneered Big Head. “And, even if you are supposed to be running the show, you can’t change and make up the rules as you go along.”
I looked at Julia’s crestfallen face. It was the only question she had got right so far, and it seemed cruel to deprive her of her only point. Big Head was several dozen points in the lead even if you added everyone else’s score together, but he was not about to let this one slip through his fingers.
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Translated by Talita Mahfuz Adamo
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Author review: I liked the way Talitha communicated with me. |
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Translated by Jose A Herrera
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Author review: Very easy and fun to work with. always kept in touch and asked for explanations when necessary. Happy to work with again and recommend him |
