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4. British Greatness

Worried about obscure questions, Paul rewrites the UK Citizenship Test to reflect his ideas about Britishness. From August 2013.

Paul Sinha is proudly British. He also loves a quiz.

So you would have thought that the UK Citizenship Test, which newcomers to this country must pass to become citizens, would have been right up his street.

But the questions in the 2012 and 2013 Home Office guides seem either bizarrely easy - "Where is Welsh most widely spoken?" - or infuriatingly vague - "What happened in the First World War?"

So Paul has created his own test, to better reflect the things that aspiring migrants should understand before they can call themselves British.

In this episode, he looks who and what Britons consider to be "great", and social cohesion - from what you need to know about weddings and marriage to the 2011 summer riots.

Written and performed by Paul Sinha.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on 成人论坛 Radio 4 in August 2013.

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