25 July 2016
Inside Language | Peter Clarke and Kate Burridge look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes
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delray77/iStockphoto
Dutch courage, French letters, it’s all Greek to me… In the latest Inside Language podcast, Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge about how outmoded attitudes have hung around in English.
• Inside Story published before August 2016 are now archived in iTunes – just click here and scroll down the list of titles in reverse chronological order.
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds
Books & Arts
12 March 2019
Television | A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white
Books & Arts
8 March 2019
Books | The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Introducing our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography
18 July 2016
Television | Game of Thrones brings to the screen qualities we associate with Aeschylus and Sophocles, writes Jane Goodall
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Turning point: Kit Harington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.
Turning point: Kit Harington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.
