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Ecce! Fife! or Rediscovering the Lost Latin of Fife

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09/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Ecce! Fife! or Rediscovering the Lost Latin of Fife

Schoolchildren in Fife are learning Latin for the first time. Natalie Haynes investigates

4 Extra Debut. Natalie Haynes uncovers a lost link to the past when she meets schoolchildren in Fife learning Latin for the first time. From 2013.

In Fife in Scotland, schoolchildren are learning Latin through a project run by St Andrews University and the charity IRIS. 

But as Natalie Haynes discovers, Fife has a lost Latin heritage, and one which scholars are working to bring back into the light.

Producer: David Stenhouse 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2013.

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