Sunday Feature

The Struggle for Language

Sunday 28 January 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

The Struggle for Language. 2/3: Turkish. Maureen Freely hears how writers like Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk work with a language censored by a government reform.

Duration:

45 minutes

Playlist:

2/3. Turkish

Maureen Freely hears how writers like Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk work with a language that had half its vocabulary expunged, or made politically incorrect, in a government reform that banned words of Arabic and Persian origin in favour of pure Turkish.

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

• 18 Mar 07 Mind as Machine
• 11 Mar 07 Educating Mill
• 4 Mar 07 Charles Chaplin
• 25 Feb 07 Gibraltar unearthed
• 18 Feb 07 Six Unexpected Days
• 4 Feb 07 Struggle for Language
• 28 Jan 07 Turkish
• 21 Jan 07 New German
• 14 Jan 07 Pigment Envy
• 7 Jan 07 Heinrich von Kleist

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