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Talk of the Town, Talk of the Country

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Stanley Ellis sets out on some more 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: Sons, Lovers and Midland Miners
'If anyone has made Eastwood and its talk famous, it's
D. H. Lawrence , and all around here are people who have such a distinctive way of speaking that they really do stand out.' Researcher JOHN TITFORD Producer SIMON ELMES

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D. H. Lawrence
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John Titford
Producer:
Simon Elmes
Source: Radio Times

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