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The Dark Wood of Dialect

BBC Radio 3
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A study of the consequences for Italy of the struggle to impose Tuscan as the national language on a population of whom, when the country was finally unified in 1861, 97 per cent spoke only some other dialect.
Written and presented by Jonathan Steinberg. with recordings made throughout Italy. Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON

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Presented By:
Jonathan Steinberg.
Source: Radio Times

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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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