Sundays 1st February - 15 February 2009, 1.30pm
Playfully informative programmes aimed at broadening listeners knowledge and occasionally venturing into some difficult and contentious areas.
Is English inherently more metaphorical than any other language because of its marine heritage? What's the connection, "at the end of the day", between cliche and literary modernism?
And what happens when you take up the invitation on a white van suggesting you ask the driver for a quotation? Does he go for Wilde or Shakespeare?
"It is not a case of loving the language so much you want to preserve every hair on its lovely little head. The fun comes from watching it change and working out how.
Our programme on Metaphor suggests that the way metaphorical language operates is a bit like the way the sea shapes the land. Which is itself a metaphor.
Some academics believe ALL language is a metaphor. For what? you might ask. And spend a delightful afternoon thinking about the answer."
Stephen Fry.
Okay ???
Hhmmmmmmmmnnn ......
Nah ..... Nah-Nah ... Na-Na-Na NAH ....... ... etc. etc.
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