Isy Suttie is an actor and comedian best known for her role in Peepshow and her one woman show Love Letters on Radio 4 as well as many other shows and podcasts. Here she talks to Michael Rosen about writing her comedy and what informs it. She grew up in Matlock in Derbyshire and a deep love as well of knowledge of the place and its people find their way into her humour. Words ending in consonants too are much funnier than those ending in a vowel she says. And as for learning Welsh to impress her partner her song written to show off her language skills to him is a linguistic masterpiece!
Producer: Maggie Ayre
Tip of the Tongue
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Mouthpiece: Turning the Spoken Word into Songs
Taking Turns in Conversation
The Top 20 Words in English
How Shakespeare Spoke
Slang
Language Evolution: A Gene for Language?
Gorilla gorilla gorilla: Latin names for animals and plants
The Alphabet
Inventing Brand Names
Romance and Romanticism
Reading: Print v eBooks
Number Words
Non-Verbal Communication
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