The BBC has dipped its toes into the water of popular linguistics before, with Radio 4 programmes such as Melvin Bragg’s Routes of English, however it’s not every day that they launch a whole website and pan-BBC project devoted to linguistics. The project is named Voices, and encompasses a Radio 4 series called Word4Word and [...]
I’ve just signed up for a free trial of Film Four’s DVD Rental Service. There are tons of these rent-by-post services around now, with seemingly every company trying to get in on the act, from Amazon to Blockbuster. As a flat, we tend to watch a lot of DVDs. We own quite a lot between [...]