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Dr Burlinson in BBC News Magazine: Tesco and a strange bit of poetry

Posted on 8 March 201321 March 2016 by english
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Dr Christopher Burlinson was interviewed for the BBC News Magazine’s article about Tesco’s ‘poetic’ double-page ads following the recent reports of adulterated foods in the supermarket’s range of products: Tesco and a strange bit of Poetry. 

And from the Evening Standard’s piece on the same topic: It gets verse and worse as Tesco horses around with poetry.

 

 

 

 

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