Media: BBC Radio series on language endangerment
| Submitter: |
Anna Belew
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| Submitter Email: | anna@linguistlist.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Language Documentation Anthropological Linguistics |
| Media Body: |
"Our Language in Your Hands - Linguist Mark Turin goes in search of the world's endangered languages" BBC will be airing a three-part radio series on language policy, language diversity, and language endangerment beginning next week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6zpl. It will be presented by Mark Turin (Yale University/Cambridge University) and will focus on Nepal, South Africa, and New York City. The first episode, recorded in Nepal over the summer, airs from 11:00-11:30am GMT on Monday, 3 December, 2012. Alongside analogue and digital radio transmission in the UK, the programme will be streamed live online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/. Episodes two and three cover the linguistic landscape of South Africa and New York City, and will be aired 11:00-11:30am on Monday 10 and Monday 17 December respectively. |
| Issue Number: | 23.4962 |
| Date Posted: | November 28, 2012 |
