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What'sthe Big Idea?

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Twelve conversations with Bryan Magee.
4: The Language Trap Words used to be so simple, chopping reality into its little bits. But people's reality is made of words, secretly distorting and trapping their actions. Novelist A SByatt, historian Sylvia Adamson and linguist Jean Aitchison discuss how to escape the language trap.
Producer Matt Thompson

Contributors

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Bryan Magee.
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Sylvia Adamson
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Jean Aitchison
Producer:
Matt Thompson
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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