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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040212
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Byline: MARTIN KELNER

COMEDIAN Al Murray's inspired creation, the lager slurping, foreigner-baiting Pub Landlord, would not appear to have much in common with William Makepeace Thackeray, but the novelist is Murray's great great great-grandfather, and the Oxford-educated comic claims he and his ancestor share a flair for social satire. In The Great Snobographer (Radio 4, 11.30am), Murray reveals how Thackeray more or less invented the concept of the word 'snob' in something he wrote for Punch called The Book Of Snobs, and liked to make fun of the French. Biographer D.J. ...

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