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May 21, 2017 9 min

Lesson Three: Getting Better Acquainted with Words

from The Invisible College Hosted by BBC Radio 4

How do we recognise a dancing, hell-raising word from one that just wants a quiet life flat on the page? Poet Ted Hughes helps us recognise words that act and use their muscles, plus rare archive recording of Virginia Woolf.

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