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Radio 4,13 Aug 2019,28 mins

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Word of Mouth

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Michael Rosen meets London-born writer Gabriel Gbadamosi, to talk Dickens and dialect. With historical linguist Laura Wright they look at Gabriel's novel Vauxhall, and how the types of English found on the streets of London find their way into his work, and that of Dickens, Chaucer and Henry Green. Producer: Melvin Rickarby

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