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Talk of the Town, Talk of the Country

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A six-part series in which
Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic B-roads to discover the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language.
1:The Gower Peninsula
'My story from Gower is one of contrasting and conflicting language: of a north where they speak Welsh and a south where they are not only
English-speaking but don't really like to be thought of as Welsh at all.'
Field research by ROBERT PENHALLURICK
Producer SIMON ELMES (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Penhallurick
Producer:
Simon Elmes
Source: Radio Times

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