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Talk of the Town, Talk of the Country

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In six programmes
Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic B-roads to discover the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language.
2: Yorkshire: town and country
'The speech of the country and small towns to the north and east of York has more in common with that of the Lake District than with the way they talk in the woollen towns....'
Producer SIMON ELMES long wave only

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Stanley Ellis
Producer:
Simon Elmes
Source: Radio Times

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