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Talk of the Town, Talk of the Country

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Stanley Ellis sets out, in a series of six programmes, 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: Late Nights and Twopenny Ices - the London Divide 'In my boyhood, talking
Cockney meant talking badly. One of the reasons why
Cockney speech has changed is simply that educationalists ever since the 1870s have been dedicated to stamping it out....' Researcher BOB BARLTROP
Producer WILL CANTOPHER. Stereo
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