The Verb

3 February 2007

Saturday 3 February 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Ian McMillan presents the weekly magazine about language. Louise Welsh brings a thriller writer's perspective to a specially commissioned piece about the sinister night life in a large factory in Edinburgh. Daljit Nagra, bard of Dollis Hill, talks to Ian about his collection Look We Have Coming To Dover.

Duration:

45 minutes

Playlist

Mystery and imagination flutter over The Verb this week. Night shift workers cower in fear at the strange sounds coming from the depths of a decaying factory in the story written specially for the programme by the brilliant Louise Welsh; there's a brush with phone terrorism in the debut novelist, Rebecca Gowers' radio play, Special Offer Special; and one of the freshest voices in contemporary poetry, Daljit Nagra, turns up the volume on multicultural Britain with his passionate, funny, syncopated creole.. telling stories of aspiration and alienation as well as stories of love. And then of course there's the project to pour an undiluted account of the language and literature of Scotland in the last fifty years onto the world wide web..this should be enough to quench anyone's thirst so join Ian McMillan and drink deep with The Verb here on BBC Radio 3 at nine thirty this Saturday evening.


Additional information:


1) Look We Have Coming to Dover by Daljit Nagra is published by Faber
2) Rebecca Gowers' debut novel - When to Walk is published by Canongate.
3) Louise Welsh's last novel - The Bullet Trick - is also published by Canongate.
4) Glasgow University's project to map the language and literature of Scotland can be found by clicking on the following link: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/advanced.php>.

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