I missed what sounds like a rather fascinating Radio 4 programme last week. According to The Observer, “Selling the Old School Tie” reported on British public schools such as Harrow and Dulwich College…
…setting up in Beijing and Shanghai, where there is a keen market for boaters and Blighty.
Despite the BBC’s own caption for the story (“Flogging the public school experience to the Chinese”), I’m left wondering quite how traditional an experience they recreate in such foreign climes. I’m guessing that authenticity may have been sacrificed to an extent, but it won’t stop me speculating…