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Forked Tongues

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last of three personal views on the way language is used in society today. Brevity is Death Frank Delaney argues that the necessity to communicate within the shrinking attention-span imposed by television. radio and tabloid journalism is destroying the grandeur of our language. Series producer JOY HATWOOD

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