Voices
Christine De Luca is a poet who writes in Shetlandic, which is spoken in the Shetland Isles off the north coast of Scotland. We asked her about the dialect.
What happens to people's memories when their town disappears? We asked Filip Springer, author of 'History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town'.
Writer and translator Robert Ferguson, who has lived in Norway for 30 years, takes us on a tour of Scandinavia's musical heritage.
Eir Nolsøe, a radio journalist from the Faroe Islands, tells us about her home country, on the occasion of this year's Nordic Matters festival at the Southbank Centre in London.
Being an English language assistant gives you insight into a new culture. Laura Leichtfried, a language assistant in Alsace, France, tells us about the region.
The British Council’s John Dubber examines how a figure famous as a war leader was also a master of soft power, or influence by attraction rather than coercion.
The British Council’s Anne Bostanci, co-author of the report Remember the World as well as the War, gives us a glimpse into the war’s global scale and legacy.
Lucinda Hawksley gives us an idea here of the language and images employed by British journalists, propagandists and artists during that time.