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'WORDS FAIL ME'

National Programme
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' Changes in Pronunciation '
H. C. Wyld and Harold Orton
Could we readily understand our great-great-grandfathers? In today's broadcast listeners will hear on records Chaucer, Shakespeare, Pope, Pitt, and Gladstone as they sounded to their contemporaries-so far as we can tell. These reconstructions are not guesswork, and the way in which scholars arrive at their conclusions will be explained.

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H. C. Wyld
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Harold Orton
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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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