100 Greatest Britons Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time. The poll resulted in some unlikely candidates including Guy Fawkes, Aleister Crowley, Boy George and Robbie Williams. It also included two living Irish nationals (Bono and Bob Geldof) and James Connolly, the Irish nationalist who was executed by the British in 1916. The highest-placed Scottish entry was Alexander Fleming in 20th place. The resulting series, "Great Britons", included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate.
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Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and South Africa all produced copies of the show locally. Germany ran it on ZDF and called it Unsere Besten (Our Best). The CBC ran The Greatest Canadian in 2004. KRO (part of Omroep) ran the De Grootste Nederlander [1] (The Greatest Dutchman). The South African Broadcasting Corporation ran the Great South Africans.In Finland, YLE is planning a copycat version called Suuret Suomalaiset (Greatest Finns)[1].
Due to the nature of the poll used to select and rank the Britons, the results are of dubious statistical quality. They are as follows:
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