Archive for November, 2002

Why are we so fascinated by lists? As a teenager I made lists endlessly.  Lists of people mostly.  My fifteen all-time Welsh rugby greats.  The ten preachers I would most like to hear.  It’s a game that many people play.  And the BBC is playing it at the moment.  Last year the BBC carried out a poll of 30,000 people and asked them to nominate the Greatest Britons of all time.  The resulting list of “the 100 Greatest Britons” has been published.  …