6.30 English in Action
Ten programmes on language and the ways we use it.
3: Language and the Individual Man's use of language distinguishes him from animals, but each speaker also has individual characteristics which set him apart from all other users. ANDREW Wilkinson , Reader in Education in English, University of Birmingham, shows how these individual characteristics are determined by age, sex, class, status and personality.
Producer ALAN WILDING
7.0 The True Style
2: The Discovery of Rome
JOHN Wilton-Ely describes how the newly made discoveries of Roman antiquity such as Herculaneum influenced 18th-century thinkers, artists and architects.
Producer ELIZABETH ST JOHNSTON