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| |  Ghost writers This week, Amber and Callum chat about 'ghost writing'. What does the verb 'to ghost write' mean? (It's nothing to do with ghost stories, ghost trains or ghost towns ...) And why do celebrities these days tend to use ghost writers to write their life stories for them? Find out.
This week's question: The word 'autobiography' comes from the Greek for: a) 'life pictures' b) 'life' and 'self' c) 'self', 'life' and 'write' Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
Vocabulary from the programme to ghost write to write a book or article etc. for another person, so that they can pretend it is their own no-holds-barred without any limits or controls stilted style a style that doesn't flow very well, that doesn't sound natural or elegant coherent well-structured to be credited to have your contribution to something (eg. to writing a book) acknowledged becoming more mainstream if something is 'becoming more mainstream', it is thought to be less shocking than before because more people know about it and accept it stepping out of the closet if something is 'stepping out of the closet', it is no longer a secret to be savvy if you're savvy about something, you know and understand it Extras  Download this programme (mp3 - 1.8 MB) More on ghost writing* Read about Robert Harris's political thriller The Ghost* *The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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