麻豆社

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆社's poetry archive and selects Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets: A Festival of Dialect.

The Blackpool-based festival is a celebration of dialect speaking and writing - with participants from as far afield as Cornwall and Northumberland, Kent and Cumbria, gathering for a weekend of poetry, storytelling and song.

Actor and writer Catherine Harvey catches up with festival founder Sid Calderbank at a hotel on the seafront to discuss this unique meeting of dialect enthusiasts and enjoys dialect performances from all over England.

Catherine talks to Rod Dimbleby, Chair of the Yorkshire Dialect Society about Joseph Wright and the first Dialect Dictionary.

She also chats to writer and historian Paul Salveson about the future of dialect in our modern world.

A Made in Manchester production for 麻豆社 Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2020.