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Talk of the Town, Talk of the Country: 6: Glasgow

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last of six programmes in which Stanley Ellis sets out on some 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.

They say that in Glasgow you can pin-point the line of demarcation between broad Glaswegian and genteel Kelvinside to a particular spot in some streets....

(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stanley Ellis
Field Researcher:
Cliff Hanley
Producer:
Simon Elmes
Source: Radio Times

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