Stacey Dooley’s open faced, clearly spoken interviews with people who responded to her questions and her direct speech to camera, brought into perspective the true

This election is good for politics.  For all this time we felt vaguely that things weren’t too bad at the government end of things. The

By Marc Abraams So…… in this era when so many people use the word “so” to begin so many of their sentences, one scholar has

On a visit to Tate Modern I came across some writing by Marlene Dumas.  I’ve always been fascinated by the connection between images, sounds and

“No-one can listen to a boring voice for more than a couple of minutes. No-one wants to or enjoys listening to a pushed (over-projected) or

Here are a couple of examples of Received Pronunciation. Both from the same era, the early 1900s: the writers Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. Virginia

Being short of breath is extremely distressing.  Sometimes the coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath associated with asthma is due to irritable larynx syndrome and

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Dante’s Inferno – the modern day re-telling of the story by Craft Theatre had a private viewing last night.  It was a brave tribute by

I’d been asked by an interpreter recently “How do I check if my voice is alright”.  I thought it was a trick question – we’d