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Stanley Ellis discovers the wealth of local language. 4: Cumberland Bards and Border Ballads
'It's changed, has the dialect, it keeps changing and if you started to talk about "thrib-trees braffams and hames," there are people who wouldn't know what you were talking about....' Researchers SIMON HEWITT and RENE ROBERTS
Producer WILL CANTOPHER. Stereo

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Stanley Ellis
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Simon Hewitt
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Rene Roberts
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