19/09/2008
Presented by Ian McMillan. With a look at translations of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Toby Litt's strange words and phrases, and Niven Govinden with a new short story.
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of performance and new writing.
Alan Brownjohn and Peter Wilkinson discuss why Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard has been translated into Latin by so many people, including a Lord Chief Justice, a cricketer and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Plus the programme's language spy Toby Litt reporting back on strange words and phrases he has overheard, novelist Niven Govinden with a short story as well as a look back at the work of writer and actor Ken Campbell.
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