Radio: What Is The Bronx?

What is The Bronx? Is it a State?

Haven't you really any aristocracy?

How do you clean the flues in the Empire State Building?

Why are all the books on the Civil War about the South?

Did close harmony originate in America? Are the singers in pain? If not, why not?

These artless British queries were inspired by the presence of thousands of U.S. fighting men in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand. OWI undertakes to answer such questions in a weekly radio program called Answering You. In England the program has risen to fourth place on BBC's "inspirational" list, with an estimated audience of 5,000,000.

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