Ian McMillan presents the weekly magazine about language
A cup of tea
A cup of tea 
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The cup that cheers but does not inebriate -- that's tea for you. Writers aren't traditionally famed for their sobriety but if we're to believe two of their number, Heidi James and Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, a cuppa really should be preferred to the hard stuff if you're keen to fling wide the doors of perception. They've organised a literary tea party to demonstrate the truth of this and in The Verb this week they'll be explaining their thinking to Ian McMillan as well as sharing a brew with him and the master tea taster, Giles Oakley. Invitations to partake in the jorums of amber fluid have also been accepted by the Booker prize winner, Yann Martel and his fellow authors Iain Sinclair, Nicholas Blincoe and Peter Wild as well as by the academic, John Mullan. Iain Sinclair will be celebrating the publication of a new edition of the American poet, Ed Dorn's work; Peter and Nicholas will be discussing the anthology, Perverted by Language inspired by the words and music of Mark E Smith and his band, The Fall; and John Mullan and Yann Martel explore the wonderful world of the booklist - a world of instruction, reassurance but also of guerrilla tactics. That's all in The Verb with Ian McMillan here on BBC Radio 3 at nine forty five this evening.
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