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In this edition, Peter Pomeransev looks at the media, the nation states, and Super Ted.

I was four years old when I arrived in 1980s Britain, the child of political refugees from the Soviet Union.

Like many immigrants, my first impressions were how different my speech, my taste and food,

even my feelings were to those around me. What was this nation, this Britain, and what was my place in it?

Luckily, I had someone to help me.

This is a story about an ordinary teddy bear.

When he was made, they found something wrong with him

and threw him away like a piece of rubbish.

Yes, television.

That bear became super-thed. television. the children doing the same. All of us synchronize around the orbit of Button Moon, all part

of one magic roundabout. And it wasn't just Super Ted. I remember my father in the living room with the day's newspaper spread

out on the floor. The newspaper placed us in both time and space, bringing new headlines each day under a new date and and

bringing new headlines each day under a new date and carefully structuring national news and international, local and foreign.

It helped my family feel more at home in Britain.

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