On the Lasting Impact of The West Wing

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Claire Handscombe

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For Sarah McConnell, it started like this: living in Japan more than a decade ago, she was desperate for something in English to watch. Anything. It so happened that the something she found lying around her apartment was a set of West Wing DVDs. A few moments in, she hit pause: “did you see how long…

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Claire Handscombe

Editor of WALK WITH US: How the West Wing Changed Our Lives; author of the novel UNSCRIPTED and of CONQUERING BABEL: a Practical Guide to Learning a Language.