Radio National Lingua Franca Indexes 2005

Book Reading
The Book Show
By Design
The Deep End
Exhibit A
First Person
Lingua Franca
MovieTime
The Night Air
PoeticA
Short Story
Project
The Space

Program summaries and transcripts – 2005

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The four most recent programs are available with audio

December 2005

It's hard to write in a foreign city...
Broadcast: 31/12/2005
It's hard to write prose...
Broadcast: 24/12/2005
Gut Feelings...
Broadcast: 17/12/2005
Homer's Similes...
Broadcast: 10/12/2005
Why Birds Sing...
Broadcast: 03/12/2005

November 2005

Wake up Australia!
Broadcast: 26/11/2005
Language In Japan...
Broadcast: 19/11/2005
Getting The Truth Out Of Guantanamo...
Broadcast: 12/11/2005
Learning Maths in French and French in Maths: does it work?
Broadcast: 05/11/2005

October 2005

Learning To Love Shakespeare...
Broadcast: 29/10/2005
Where There's A Will...
Broadcast: 22/10/2005
Orchestral Variations...
Broadcast: 15/10/2005
The Hard Yards...
Broadcast: 08/10/2005
The Lyrics of Cole Porter...
Broadcast: 01/10/2005

September 2005

Mate...
Broadcast: 24/09/2005
Empires of the Word...
Broadcast: 17/09/2005
Singing Australian...
Broadcast: 10/09/2005
Etymology For Everyone...
Broadcast: 03/09/2005

August 2005

The Poet As Translator...
Broadcast: 27/08/2005
The Festival of Poetry in Translation...
Broadcast: 20/08/2005
Narangga Warra...
Broadcast: 13/08/2005
Race and Racism...
Broadcast: 06/08/2005

July 2005

Why The Language Of Israelis Should Not Be Called Modern Hebrew, Part 2...
Broadcast: 30/07/2005
Why The Language Of Israelis Should Not Be Called Modern Hebrew...
Broadcast: 23/07/2005
Pronouncing Shakespeare...
Broadcast: 16/07/2005
Deregulation and Other Myths...
Broadcast: 09/07/2005
English Language Problems in Australian Universities...
Broadcast: 02/07/2005

June 2005

The Best Of Both Words...
Broadcast: 25/06/2005
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary...
Broadcast: 18/06/2005
On Writing A Poem: An Author Speaks...
Broadcast: 11/06/2005
A Dictionary of Maori Words in New Zealand English...
Broadcast: 04/06/2005

May 2005

Tanya's Diaries...
Broadcast: 28/05/2005
The Political Satire of Rod Quantock...
Broadcast: 21/05/2005
Nursery Rhymes 2
Broadcast: 14/05/2005
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown...
Broadcast: 07/05/2005

April 2005

Nothing Fixed or Final...
Broadcast: 30/04/2005
Diggerspeak...
Broadcast: 23/04/2005
The Secret Reading Life of Us...
Broadcast: 16/04/2005
The Secret Reading Life of Us...
Broadcast: 09/04/2005
The Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts
Broadcast: 02/04/2005

March 2005

The New Zealand Accent : 2
Broadcast: 26/03/2005
The New Zealand Accent : 1
Broadcast: 19/03/2005
The great Oxford English Dictionary in the electronic age
Broadcast: 12/03/2005
The comic language of Here's Luck
Broadcast: 05/03/2005

February 2005

The great social experiment of reading: faltering expectations
Broadcast: 26/02/2005
Indian English
Broadcast: 19/02/2005
Does English have to be so hard to spell?
Broadcast: 12/02/2005
The Manic Art of the Monologuist
Broadcast: 05/02/2005

January 2005

Spanglish: a new American language or a mishmash?
Broadcast: 29/01/2005
Does the world need Esperanto?
Broadcast: 22/01/2005
Cleaning Up The English Language...
Broadcast: 15/01/2005
Revelling in the richness of English spelling
Broadcast: 08/01/2005
Silencing the Sublime...
Broadcast: 01/01/2005

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