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  1. Kanraxel: The Confluence of Agnack (2015)

    Director
    Remi Sowa
    Subject
    Anthropology; Languages
    Distribution
    DVD (52 minutes), £35.00

    Is multilingual education a privilege or an obstacle? This documentary follows the community of Agnack, a tiny village in the south of Senegal, where it is considered perfectly normal to speak a minimum of...

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  2. Fry’s Planet Word (2012 Television)

    Director
    John-Paul Davidson
    Producer
    John-Paul Davidson
    Subject
    English language and literature; Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

    In this five-part, BBC television series renowned polymath and wordsmith Stephen Fry investigates how language has played a crucial role in human evolution. He travels the world to learn the history of...

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  3. Synergise! Lectures Series (2011)

    Subject
    Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 360 minutes), £202.00

    This series of 4 DVDs comprises 12 lectures presented in November 2010 at the Synergise! Conference organised and hosted by AUSIT, the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators. The presentations...

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  4. Fry’s English Delight - Series 2 (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 115 minutes), £12.99

    This is a second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry’s witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language. It includes four 30-minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Fry, indulging...

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  5. Beyond Babel (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £15.00

    A two-disc DVD set containing the four, long-unavailable, television programmes, originally broadcast in 1991, along with twenty nine new additional sequences which expand on some of the themes raised by the...

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  6. Adventure of English, The (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 405 minutes), £43.05

    Melvyn Bragg and a host of experts explore the vibrant ,1500-year history of the English language in this 8-part television series. How did it grow from a relatively insignificant Germanic dialect to become...

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  7. Front Row [14/03/2012] (Radio)

    Producer
    Ekene Akalawu
    Subject
    Drama

    Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with actor Ben Crystal on what Shakespeare’s plays sounded like when first performed. Crystal demonstrates with examples from...

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  8. Building a Better Vocabulary

    Subject
    Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 1,116 minutes), £54.99

    In these lectures Professor Flanigan teaches the etymology (history) and morphology (structure) of words, and delves into the cognitive science behind committing new words to long-term memory. Includes 36...

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