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                            ![]()  Episode 55/5 It is 1993, and John Simpson is appointed chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. 
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                            ![]()  Episode 44/5 John Simpson visits the USA and Japan for the launch of the Second Edition of the OED. 
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                            ![]()  Episode 33/5 John Simpson describes how the OED became digitised in the 1980s. 
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                            ![]()  Episode 22/5 Poet Benjamin Zephaniah teaches the author the fine art of 'skanking'. 
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                            ![]()  Episode 11/5 Life behind the scenes at the Oxford English Dictionary. Read by Nigel Anthony. 
