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Last broadcast on Fri, 20 Mar 2009, 21:15 on BBC Radio 3 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Ian McMillan presents the weekly programme about language.
Featuring beatboxer Shlomo, artist in residence at London's Southbank Centre, and a reflection on the sweet tooth of her Scottish homeland by novelist Janice Galloway, author of Clara and the recent memoir This Is Not about Me.
Janice Galloway
This week’s Verb comes to you in the form of a mouth-watering array of tasty morsels and bite-size chunks as Janice Galloway, author of the antidote to misery memoirs This Is Not about Me, takes Ian McMillan on a gastronomic tour of the tooth-dissolving sweeties so beloved of her native Scotland.
Shlomo
Beatboxer Shlomo is on hand, just back from a tour of the Arctic and ready to chew The Verb up and spit it out…
Toby Litt
Toby Litt, language spy extraordinaire, brings us scraps of conversation overheard on a late night train, and the curious linguistic morsels contained therein.
Sophocles
Reginald Gibbons and Oliver Taplin reflect on the beauty contained in fragments of poetry by Sophocles. Written on papyrus and used to wrap the bodies of mummies in Egypt, they’ve miraculously survived to give us new insight into the great Greek dramatist’s work.
Broadcasts
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Fri 10 Oct 200821:15
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Fri 20 Mar 200921:15
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