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| |  Harold Pinter - playwright This week we hear about a famous English playwright, Harold Pinter, who was recently awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy in Stockholm described him as one of the leading representatives of drama since the end of the Second World War in 1945. He is also known for expressing his political views against the war in Iraq.
Words and expressions from the programme prattle talk a lot about unimportant things slanderous something which is said about someone which is not true and damages that person's reputation virulently strongly courageous very brave subtle difficult to notice bland boring Try the quiz below to practise some of the language used in the programme. Extras  Try the Entertainment quiz Programme script (pdf - 65k) | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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