MONDAY 22 AUGUST

7.40am
Out of English
BBC Asian Network
How do language and accent influence our perceptions of social space? We investigate every morning this week.
BBC Asian Network Voices.
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9.00am
Coinneach MacÌomhair
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
Mar phàirt de Voices air BBC Radio nan Gaidheal gach la bi Coinneach MacÌomhair a' rannsachadh feuch de a tha a chainnt agus an dòigh-labhairt againn ag ràdh mu ar deidhinn agus a' ciallachadh dhuinn.
As part of Coinneach MacÌomhair: Each day Kenny MacIver explores what the way we speak says about us and means to us. In Gaelic.
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10.30am - 11.55am
Gerry's Language Journey
BBC Radio Ulster
As part of Voices week, Gerry Anderson goes in search of the voices of Northern Ireland. With expert linguist Professor Loreto Todd in tow, Gerry takes his show on to the Big Yellow Bus to hear how we sound and speak. While Sean stays in the studio (and gets to sit in Gerry's chair) taking your texts and calls, Gerry will be out and about finding out why people in Moy "shimmey the pose" or people in Cushendall wear "ganseys" instead of jumpers. Listeners can take part in the programme and bring along their own local sayings and words.
Today Gerry and his team of linguistic helpers are in Balnamore Primary School.
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11.00am
Victoria Derbyshire
BBC Five Live
News, debate and the Five Live phone-in at 11am - Is national local identity as important through language and dialect? Are certain areas of the UK becoming homogenised? Have we developed a special youth language? Call free on 0500 909693, text 85058.
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11.15am - 11.25am
Bùirn neo Uisge
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
Mar phàirt de Voices air BBC Radio nan Gaidheal : còig sgìrean ann an Alba agus taghadh de dh' fhacail Gàidhlig a bhuineas do ar beatha làitheil. Ach de a chanadh sibhse?
As part of Mire ri Moir: Five areas of Scotland and a selection of everyday words - but what would you say? In Gaelic.
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11.55am
My Story
BBC Radio Ulster
Everybody's got a story to tell, and as part of the Voices project this week's stories feature accents from all over Northern Ireland. Today - The Man Who Would Be Bing - Joe Burns from Belfast.

1.00pm - 1.45pm
Baldi
BBC7
Drama series rooted in the voices of Belfast. Settling Scores - Paolo, the detective and Franciscan priest, invites Tina to her first classical music concert and finds a murder gets things off on a wrong note.
4/6

4.00pm - 6.00pm
Big Toe
BBC7
Every day this week, as part of the programme, Big Toe will be talking about the way we speak. Will you help champion our brand new word, and see how many people we get using it?
Why is it that kids are better at learning new languages than their parents? Today, Professor David Crystal joins us to explain.
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5.10pm - 5.20pm
Beyond Voices
BBC Asian Network
Every day this week, what particular voices might mean in critical times.
BBC Asian Network Voices.
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6.00pm - 6.30pm
Our Voices
BBC Radio Wales
Broadcasters all over Britain have been collecting stories and opinions on accents for Voices. Anita Morgan travelled all around Wales recording for BBC Radio Wales.
5/6

8.00pm - 10.00pm
Across The Line
BBC Radio Ulster
As part of Voices, Across The Line explores the range of voices that can be heard in the local alternative music scene. In tonight's special feature, Deci Gallen speaks to MCs from Belfast and Derry in an attempt to uncover why in recent years it has become more acceptable to perform using your own local accent. Deci will also be looking at the increased usage of Northern Irish phrases in songs and asking members of the public to rate homegrown lyrics compared to imported songs. And finally he'll be asking the all important question: why do so many singer-songwriters from here sound American?
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9.00pm - 1.00am
The Lamacq Documentary: Radio Anyone
BBC Radio 1
From CB radio to pirate radio and now the internet, supergeeks and superfreaks will find any means possible to get themselves heard over the airwaves. Radio Anyone looks at the ways people exploit technology to broadcast their voices to the world. From the illegal hijacking of the airwaves in a tower-block in East London, to the latest digital technology - podcasting, this programme reveals that most basic of instincts - the need to communicate. Whether anyone's actually listening is another question...
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10.35pm - 11.05pm
Scunnered
BBC One Scotland
The average English speaker uses 50,000 words - that's roughly two thirds of a concise English Dictionary. In Scotland, the average speaker uses about 50,126 and the extra words are easily remembered because they are the funny ones - like bahookie, podger, simmit and malky. They were the backbone of many of a Rab C. Nesbitt show - as well as Chewing the Fat, Still Game and Stanley Baxter.
Scunnered provides an in depth analysis of language and comedy, plus an excuse to re-visit some very funny sketches.
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11.06pm - 12.06am
Outlook
BBC World Service
In today's programme Christine Pawlowsky meets speakers of five languages across the British Isles to talk about their use of English and their own mother tongues and discussing which language is most suitable for expressing different emotions or talking about certain issues.
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11.50pm (Repeat)
My Story
BBC Radio Ulster
Everybody's got a story to tell, and as part of the Voices project this week's stories feature accents from all over Northern Ireland. Today - The Man Who Would Be Bing - Joe Burns from Belfast.

24 hours a day on digital satellite TV
Your Stories
BBCi
If you're a digital satellite viewer, every day you can watch a new set of short films about language accent and dialect made by people all around the UK. Press the red button on your remote control and select 'Your Stories' on BBCi.