Cutting A Dash
- Author Lynne Truss
- Narrator Lynne Truss
- Publisher BBC Audio
- Publish Date 1 June 2010
- Run Time 1 hour and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Films, cinema, Radio / podcasts, Television, The Arts.
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What to expect
The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves
'... It's fair enough that punctuation fans should have the opportunity to hear more words of wisdom from their heroine' - Sunday Times
'Truss presents the arguments for and against the different uses of punctuation in such a humorous way...' - Observer
'It all adds up to lots of memorable, and improving, good fun' - Times
The runaway success of Eats, Shoots & Leaves 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.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 03-31 December 2002
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