-WAV-I find it interesting that you found out that English women can't cook a roast by reading it in a magazine. Don't you know any English women?

At any rate there is no great trick to roasting--most anyone who is inclined can do it--depending, of course, on what you mean when you say "roast"--the most traditional roast would likely be deer or boar, spit-roasted--some consider a "Pot Roast" to be a traditional Sunday roast--it certainly is a traditional dish, but it is really a trimmed down version of the French Pot au Feu--

At any rate, far from being a dying tradition, there is a resurgence of interes in the roast, as evidenced here A Traditional English Sunday Roast You should get out more.