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Up the Khyber

How to Remain Relevant Without Trying: ‘Carry On…Up The Khyber’

September 17, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Patrick Cox about the inadvertent relevance to today’s geopolitics of British 1968 comedy “Carry On… Up The Khyber.”

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