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Routes of English: Beyond the Cringe (Series 4, Programme 4)
In the 1950s of premier Robert Menzies, the approved sound of Australian English was more Westminster than Woolloomooloo. These were the last days of the so-called ‘colonial cringe’, before...
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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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Voices of the Powerless: The Great Plague
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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Remember Me
Reader: Mark McGann
A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative, unpromising early...
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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...$1.49 $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...$1.49 $2.49
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...$1.49 $2.49
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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Voices of the Powerless: The Plantation of Ireland
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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Routes of English: Complete Series 4: People and Places
Melvyn Bragg examines some of the many different varieties of English spoken around the world today, taking in Spanglish from the USA, Indian English, Caribbean English, Australian English, South...
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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...$1.49 $2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The First World War
The story of British Tommies sent 'over the top' to fight the Germans in the trenches of the First World War is a vivid emblem of powerlessness in the face of military discipline - and social...
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A Time to Dance
Reader: James Faulkner
‘A Time to Dance’ charts the obsessive and sensual consequences of a relationship between a man of fifty-four and a girl of eighteen. The gap in their backgrounds, in their expectations, and...
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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...$1.49 $2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Peasants' Revolt
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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Routes of English: Complete Series 2: Humour and Cussing
Melvyn Bragg examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks; and, finally, the many...
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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...$1.49 $2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Colonisation of Australia
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg voyages to Tasmania to find out what a sentence of transportation to Van Diemen's Land really meant to those who survived the...
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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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Voices of the Powerless: The Complete Series
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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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: 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...$1.49 $2.49
Voices of the Powerless: The Industrial Revolution
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg is in urban Lancashire to explore the warp and weft of the Industrial Revolution - how the upheavals of the new mechanisation...
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Routes of English: France and England (Series 1, Programme 3)
Where better than Hastings to look at the impact of the French on the English language? Melvyn Bragg goes to Hastings, where in 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold and invaded...
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Routes of English: What is Spanglish? (Series 4, Programme 1)
We explore the rise of powerful non-English linguistic forces in the United States.
Starting at Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrim Fathers landed in 1620, Melvyn Bragg follows the...$1.49 $2.49
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