In Popular Culture
The Receiver of Wreck was mentioned by Charlton Heston in the The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film). Show of Hands, an English folk band, sing about the Receiver of Wreck in the song The Napoli. This was inspired by the wreck of the MSC Napoli which was grounded in Branscombe Bay and subsequently lost many containers which were washed up on the beach before being rifled through by people flocking to the small village.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”
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