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Cutting a Dash (Eats, Shoots & Leaves)
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LENGTH1 hr and 8 mins
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RELEASE DATE07-02-10
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The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the best-selling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Its runaway success brought millions of grammar geeks out of the closet and made it cool to care about punctuation.
This is the radio series that started it all: five programmes in which Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation. She accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on a hunt for the ‘greengrocer’s apostrophe’, enters the classroom to hear how children learn punctuation, and finds out whether anyone punctuates text messages.
Talking to writers and experts like Fay Weldon and David Crystal, she discovers the origins of the comma in Greek drama and Gregorian chant, considers the case for ‘semi colonic irrigation’ and asks how a writer’s choice of punctuation expresses his tone of voice.
Looking into the future, she wonders if ‘emoticons’ will put colons, commas, and apostrophes on the endangered species list. Impassioned, informative, and always amusing, this is an essential listen for anyone who loves language.
©2004 Lynne Truss (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd