蜜芽传媒

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 蜜芽传媒's poetry archive and selects Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets: A Festival of Dialect with actor and writer Catherine Harvey in Blackpool.

The festival is a celebration of dialect speaking and writing - with participants from as far afield as Cornwall and Northumberland, Kent and Cumbria, gathering for a weekend of poetry, storytelling and song.

Catherine catches up with festival founder Sid Calderbank at a hotel on the seafront to discuss this unique meeting of dialect enthusiasts and enjoys dialect performances from all over England.

Catherine talks to Rod Dimbleby, Chair of the Yorkshire Dialect Society about Joseph Wright and the first Dialect Dictionary and to writer and historian Paul Salveson about the future of dialect in our modern world.

A Made in Manchester production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2020.