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The Tongues of Men

on BBC Two England

A two-part film about the world's languages written and presented by George Steiner
Part 1: Disaster at Babel
' The mythical hammer blow at Babel shivered the language of Adam into thousands of jagged bits.'
(Part 2 follows at 10.50)

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George Steiner

BBC Two England

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