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David Astle is a cruciverbalist, a crossword setter; one 'lodged happily down the gnarly end' of the cryptograms that are published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He tells how it all came about in this edited version of a far longer and more detailed inside story, published in the literary and cultural journal, Meanjin. Read Transcript
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To mark last week's launch of the Scottish parliament's five-year Gaelic language plan, Holyrood has held two days of activities to promote and celebrate Scottish Gaelic.
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'Like linguistic wallpaper', is how Sian Prior once thought of the category of expressions called platitudes; until she found good reason to use those trite, but true, terms herself. Read Transcript
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Despite Australian Indigenous languages being among the most endangered in the world, their use in education facilities is becoming evermore restricted, with the focus instead on schools providing better English-language skills to Indigenous students. Read Transcript
Saturday 3.45pm
repeated Thursday 3.45pm
Presented by
Maria Zijlstra
See Collins' endangered word list and tell us what you think.
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11am AEDT
Bush Telegraph
with Michael Mackenzie
An entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia
