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Routes of English: A Better Class of Language (Series 2, Programme 3)
By your vowels, your station shall be known'.
How accents and social class are entwined. For at least 400 years, the way we speak has been one of the fundamental measures by which...£1.24 £2.49
Routes of English: Tabard Inn to Canterbury (Series 1, Programme 4)
The language of sex and death, as Chaucer and others capture English speech of the time.
Melvyn Bragg travels to the great mediaeval cathedral of Canterbury, with its shrine to the...£1.24 £2.49
Beyond Westminster: Lessons Learnt from Coalitions Past (BBC Radio 4)
Reader: Various
The special New Year's Day 2011 edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Beyond Westminster', in which Andrew Rawnsley considers the lessons of history for Britain's coalition government - and its...
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Routes of English: Freezing the River (Series 2, Programme 5)
English is constantly evolving, but some linguists have tried to 'freeze' it for good. We've been looking for a standard form of the language to adhere to for centuries. If there's one thing...
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Routes of English: Whose English is it Anyway? (Series 4, Programme 6)
With English now hailed on all sides as the world's first ‘global’ language and the preferred medium of expression from United Biscuits to the United Nations, Melvyn Bragg meets people - like...
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The Story of the King James Bible: The Translation
To mark the 400th anniversary of this ‘noblest monument of English prose’, James Naughtie tells the story of how and why James I (VI of Scotland), commissioned a new translation of...
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Routes of English: Raj to Riches English (Series 4, Programme 2)
The English language in India. Despite being the imposed language of the imperial power, English also had the power to unite the nation. The story of the English language in India is also the...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Stanley Baldwin (Series 1, Episode 7)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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Routes of English: Cornwall (Series 3, Programme 3)
Melvyn travels west in search of the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect.
Cornwall is an evocative place. A Celtic land with a rich mythology, a land of caves and coves, of cream teas...£1.24 £2.49
Routes of English: Unspeakable English (Series 2, Programme 4)
Bad language is not new. We've been swearing for centuries, and those in power have been trying to censor us for just as long.
Nowadays, many people are quite relaxed about swearing and...£1.24 £2.49
Eyewitness: The BBC at War 1938 - 1945
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
A special compilation from Eyewitness, a unique history of Britain in the 20th Century, written by Joanna Bourke and narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating...
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Routes of English: Oswestry (Series 3, Programme 5)
Here, Melvyn visits Oswestry. Just five miles from the Welsh border, this is a frontier town whose name means 'boundary'. It’s where Offa's Dyke and countless crumbling castles bear witness to...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Benjamin Disraeli (Series 1, Episode 5)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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Routes of English: Coining it (Series 2, Programme 1)
When a new concept or product comes along, how does it get its name? Making up new words for new things or ideas isn't new. New words - linguists call them 'coinages' - are as old as the English...
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Routes of English: The Long Trek to Freedom (Series 4, Programme 5)
English becomes the language of liberation as Afrikaans takes on the label of oppression.
In 1994 the first free democratic elections in South Africa were held, bringing Nelson Mandela...£1.24 £2.49
Farewell to Winston
Reader: Nicholas Witchell
Nicholas Witchell presents the BBC Radio 4 programme that marked the final farewell to a great statesman.'A remarkable documentary capturing the day when the people of London paid their...
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Routes of English: Language at Play (Series 2, Programme 2)
Melvyn has fun and games with puns, wordplay and tongue twisters. Twisting, manipulation and stretching of the English language is an integral part of everyday communication.
This...£1.24 £2.49
Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Peel (Series 1, Episode 3)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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Routes of English: A World of Many Englishes (Series 2, Programme 6)
Two countries separated by a common language, but there are more than two Englishes.
We've been speaking English for more than 1,000 years and over that time it has changed radically....£1.24 £2.49
Routes of English: The Dawn of English (Series 1, Programme 2)
English takes on Latin, eventually becoming the world language of instruction.
Melvyn Bragg goes to Winchester, home of King Alfred the Great in the ninth century and the place where...£1.24 £2.49
Vasily Grossman from the Front Line
Reader: Elliot Levey
Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front...
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Routes of English: Home (Series 1, Programme 1)
Melvyn Bragg goes back to his home town of Wigton in Cumbria to see how English is developing - and how dialects are still spoken. He meets townspeople from all generations and walks of life, from...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Walpole (Series 1, Episode 1)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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The Story of the King James Bible: The Legacy
To mark the 400th anniversary of this ‘noblest monument of English prose’, James Naughtie tells the story of how and why James I (VI of Scotland), commissioned a new translation of...
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Routes of English: Stroke City (Series 3, Programme 2)
Local talk in the city known variously as Londonderry, Derry and, more recently, as Stroke City.
Its very name speaks of deep-seated political, social, even linguistic divisions. Known...£1.24 £2.49
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