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The Verb: Verbatim Speech

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Ian McMillan and guests celebrate the rhythms of everyday speech.

Ian McMillan and guests celebrate the rythms of everyday speech. With Will Ashon, Scottee, Kate Fox and Anna Robinson.

This week The Verb is doing some straight talking and celebrating verbatim and everyday speech with the novelist Will Ashon whose book The Passengers is a collection of voices telling their own stories; the performance artist Scottee whose new podcast After The Tone listens to so-called ordinary people in all their extraordinary glory; the poet Anna Robinson whose work always listens hard to the way people sound; and Verb regular the poet and performer Kate Fox brings some drama to how we speak. 

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright

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