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Talk of the Town, TalkoftheCountry

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The third of six programmes
Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic, n-roads to discover the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language.
3: Talking the Fishing-Lowestoft
' The fishing industry has retained many words which have been in use for 400 or 500 years, as far back as Chaucer.' Field research by DAVID BUTCHER
Producer SIMON ELMES long wave only

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Unknown:
Stanley Ellis
Producer:
Simon Elmes
Source: Radio Times

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