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Words from World War I

Doing your bit, dear old Blighty and BYOB. Michael Rosen and Professor Lynda Mugglestone explore words and phrases that defined the First World War and what they mean to us today.

Doing your bit or shirking? Afflicted with 鈥楤elgian flush鈥? Don鈥檛 forget to BYOB.

Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English at the University of Oxford, joins Michael Rosen to talk about the new language that emerged from British experience in the First World War 鈥 from Zeppelinophobia on the Home Front to 鈥榳atching the pyrotechnics鈥 in the trenches.

Jumping into an extraordinary archive put together by clergyman Andrew Clark at the time, they discover just how many words and phrases were coined to describe this brand new kind of warfare, and what they mean to us today.

Professor Lynda Mugglestone is the author of Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One.

Produced by Sarah Goodman for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol.

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Mon 17 Jan 2022 23:00

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