Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's showcase of new writing, literature and performance.
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What does Ring a Ring a Roses sound like in Serbo-Croat?
Where are Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher forced to share equal billing?
And what does eeny-meeny-miney-mo have to do with Roman Catholicism?
All is revealed if you tune in to the Verb with Ian McMillan.
Ian will also be talking to the film maker, Miranda July about her debut collection of short stories, No one Belongs Here More Than You.
They are funny and sad almost in the same breath just like her films.
There'll be a master class in Trinidadian street argot and street demeanour - better known as limin' - from the poet and playwright, Anthony Joseph and with four essays on classic travel books coming up here on Radio 3 next week two of our leading practitioners, Dea Birkett and Richard O'Neill have been reflecting on the abiding appeal of the genre.
Oh - and there's a rather wonderful new song by Barb Jungr lamenting the lost world of childhood. That's all in The Verb with Ian McMillan here on BBC Radio 3 at nine forty five tomorrow.
Dan Jones would like to thank Camden Council's World Song Project for two of the nursery rhymes included in this week's programme -- Ringe Ringe Jaja and Prom'nons nous dans les bois.
