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The Routes of English

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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.
2: The Dawn of English - the Teachers. Bragg travels to Winchester, headquarters of Old
English, to trace the path from a tenth-century language lesson to the English taught and spoken today. With Dr Kathyrn Lowe , Dr April McMahon and Ian Hislop. Repeated from Friday

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Melvyn Bragg
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Dr Kathyrn Lowe
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Dr April McMahon
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Ian Hislop.
Source: Radio Times

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