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The Routes of English: 4: From Tabard to Canterbury

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

1,000 Years of Spoken English
Melvyn Bragg presents a history celebrating 1,000 years of the spoken language of Britain, from the first to the second millennium. The Middle English of Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales is as vivid today as it was 600 years ago. Chaucer scholar Terry Jones joins Dr Kathryn Lowe, Dr Ruth Evans and Martin Starkie to talk about what Middle English really sounded like. Producer Simon Elmes. Repeated at 9.30pm (R)

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Meivyn Bragg
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Dr Kathryn Lowe.
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Dr Ruth Evans
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Martin Starkie
Source: Radio Times

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