Episode 4
More hidden delights from the English language. Feeling refreshed after your post-lunch slooming? Then get on with your faciendum. Read by Hugh Dennis. From December 2012.
Feeling refreshed after your post lunch slooming? Then you'd better get on with your faciendum because, if you're lolly-gagging, the buzz-wig may notice and offer you a meeting without coffee.
Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon provides us with just the vocabulary we need whatever the time of day.
Written by Mark Forsyth
Read by Hugh Dennis
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
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