EPISODE · Oct 20, 2026 · 23 MIN
The Italian Test
from This Day, But Wrong
In 1936, Australian officials handed a British woman a dictation test in Italian — a language nobody told her to learn — because they disapproved of her travel companion. She failed. Then she put her fingers in her ears. A bureaucratic absurdity that brought down a cabinet minister.
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