Michael Palin is awfy worried that not enough weans are studying geography.
He wants to make the subject sexy.
The only way geography could have been made sexy for me was if it was taught by the mademoiselle, our school's French assistante who was a pure gamine and absolument belle. An Audrey Hepburn lookalike upon whose every word we would hing. The young lady who made us want to speak French but left us dumbstruck and tongue-tied. But I digress.
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