28/11/2008
Ian McMillan is joined by authors AS Byatt and Alison Macleod in a special edition of the programme, broadcast from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House.
Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of language live from the Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, with a line-up including AS Byatt and novelist Alison MacLeod, who read brand new tales of the uncanny, and public art poet Ira Lightman performing an audacious experiment in sound and text.
Plus The Verb's Language Spy Toby Litt, who has been paying close attention to what is written on peoples' t-shirts, discussing what it tells us about them, and cutting edge music and song from Iranian-Welsh electro sensation Roshi.
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