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
NHS language use
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Metaphors
Anglo Saxon
The Language of Science
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Philosophy in English
Vikings
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The most powerful word
The First Language
Raymond Antrobus
Romani
The Language of Comics
Jeffrey Boakye on black-related words
Biscuit Names
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Dyslexia
Talk of the Town: How Places Got Their Names
Solving crime with forensic linguistics
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