Past Programs
Books - 2008
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Words as tranquillisers
27/09/2008
On the notion of words as tranquillisers - rest-giving, quietening, calming - in times of disturbing uncertainty.
Whose English is it, anyway?
19/01/2008
On the colonial, postcolonial and now global lives of the English language - and in particular, how it has evolved in some Asian countries - as well as how the English literary tradition has been adapted over time to express ideas that are not, simply, English.
First broadcast 25/8/2008.
