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What's in a Name?

on BBC Radio 4 FM

that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweett
Names descriptive, collective, classical or colloquial have some very strange origins and in the first of a new series of six programmes, Denis Owen rejoices in names that sound like a ' money changer ', an ' old squaw ' and the insistent cry of ' chuck-will's-widow '...
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only

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Denis Owen
Producer:
Anne Blair

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