ELL: Re: Lost for Words: BBC Radio 4 Series

[Honorine Poidi]

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From: "Nicholas Ostler" <nostler at chibcha.demon.co.uk>
To: <endangered-languages-l at carmen.murdoch.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: ELL: Lost for Words: BBC Radio 4 Series


> Tomorrow (Wednesday 25 Sept.) there is to be the first in a series of
> three  documentaries on endangered languages from 11 to 11.30 am
> (British Summer Time). broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
>
> It is described in this week's "The Guide" in The Guardian:
>
> "Lost for Words" reports on the death of linguistic diversity
> currently taking place at a shocking rate across the globe.  There
> are around 6,000 languages, but roughly every 2 weeks another
> language dies.  Gavin Esler visits places where languages are under
> threat, hearing dialects from Australia, Ireland, Africa and Hawaii
> and tries to find out what can be done to turn the tide.
>
> I have no inside information on this programme, and had no part in
> recording it, but I have heard that it will contain a fair number of
> recordings of speech in different endangered languages.
>
> I presume the next two instalments will occur at the same time in
> following weeks.  I am informed that the producer was Amber Dawson
> <amber.dawson at bbc.co.uk> .
>
> Of course, it will be available on the BBC web-site
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
> somewhere, after the broadcast.
>
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