英音听力材料 2016-05-16

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BBC Radio 4 2016-05-16

Good morning

Perhaps this weekend you’ve been enjoying the annual Eurovision bubble – or perhaps you’ve been avoiding it – either way, you’ll have done well to evade it completely, given the ever more complex build up, and the political overtones of Ukraine’s victory on Saturday night, with a song about the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Stalin in 1944.

In one way – at least for the British – Eurovision is a bubble – an annual opportunity to indulge in the light-hearted mockery of our more serious- minded neighbours and to be nostalgic for the days of Sandie Shaw when the competition was simpler and we had any hope of winning it.

Like any cultural event, however, Eurovision is interesting to students of anthropology for on such ritualized occas