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Lingua Franca 2
3/4. Frontiers of the Tongue. What happens when two very different language families rub up against each other? Is it a case of oil and water, or do they merge happily into a new hybrid linguistic brew? Luxembourg, Brussels and Strasbourg may have different stories to tell. Michael Rosen finds out.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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