Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and allotment owners
Topics discussed: weather, friendship, mining, potter, garden, allotments, women, memories, snap, snapping, lunch, rats
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Stoke
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends. Roy and Janice are married
Topics discussed: friendship, drinking, eating, jobs, children, memories, speedway, music, frock, clothes, trousers, strides, kegs, pants, smalls
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Stoke
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Grandparents, father and daughter
Topics discussed: family, work, memories, pottery, age, jokes, young, old, teenage
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Stoke
Date: 2005-03-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: women, swearing, youngsters, friendship, Americanisms, history, age, memories, spelling, mobile phone, texting, lingo, conversation, shopping, courtesy
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Stoke
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: language, home, teenager, boys, entertainment, laugh, friendship, youth, Stokey
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Stoke
Date: 2005-03-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: swearing, stage, comedians, dialect, babies, truancy, American language
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC GMR
Date: 2004-11-19
Relationship between interviewees:
All members of the same club. Emily and Fred Hilton are married
Topics discussed: dialect, toilets, childhood, memories, school, clogs, children, pawn shop, Sunday best
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC GMR
Date: 2004-11-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: rap, language, swearing, street, opinion, prejudice, offence, friendship, relatives
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC GMR
Date: 2005-03-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Grandfather and friend, son and step-daughter with boyfriend
Topics discussed: mining, pit, school, teachers, toilets, language, spelling, children
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Derby
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and family
Topics discussed: Jamaican Patois, Jamaica, attractiveness, ugly, lounge, girls, women, slang
Languages spoken:
English, Patois
Station:
BBC Radio Derby
Date: 2005-04-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Married couple plus friend, and one other not acquainted
Topics discussed: class, over-correction, posh, playing, growing up, parents, dumbing-down, television, school, childhood, ill
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Derby
Date: 2004-11-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and relatives from same village
Topics discussed: farm, cow, butchers, tractor, foot-and-mouth, bulls, calves
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Derby
Date: 2005-03-31
Relationship between interviewees:
Publicans in Mansfield
Topics discussed: miners, drinking, pubs, duck, posh, drinking, Robin Hood, swearing
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Nottingham
Date: 2004-11-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Local writers' group members
Topics discussed: mining, teachers, children, army, duck, swearing, outsiders, Skegness, chips, peas
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Nottingham
Date: 2004-11-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Sisters and niece
Topics discussed: Nottingham, church, Sundays, soup, Caribbean, St. Kitts, Jamaican Patois, swearing, family, sisters, cobs
Languages spoken:
English, Patois
Station:
BBC Radio Nottingham
Date: 2004-11-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: accent, pits, community, rivalry, colliery, drinking, swearing, gloshers
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Merseyside
Date: 2005-03-03
Relationship between interviewees:
Aaron is Jennie's son, Carol is her friend
Topics discussed: swearing, Malaysian, work, tourism, slang, children, travel, friendship, parenthood
Languages spoken:
English, Malaysian
Station:
BBC Radio York
Date: 2005-04-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: farming, childhood, weather, language change, dialect variation, education, public speaking, parents
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio York
Date: 2004-11-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of community group
Topics discussed: jitty, alleyway
Languages spoken:
English, Cantonese
Station:
BBC London
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and fellow volunteers
Topics discussed: Pinglish, clothes, shopping, university, friendship, kopreh
Languages spoken:
English, Punjabi
Station:
BBC London
Date: 2005-03-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Work colleagues
Topics discussed: family, customers, dress, friends
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
Date: 2005-03-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: childhood, football, cinemas, parents, work, language
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
Date: 2005-03-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the Women's Institute
Topics discussed: crumpet, spelling, television, slang, peers, pregnancy, acronyms, loft, sofa
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
All attend the Florence Park family drop-in centre regularly with their children
Topics discussed: parenthood, children, tiredness, clothes, unattractive, attractiveness, drinking, accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Oxford
Date: 2004-11-26
Relationship between interviewees:
Parents and son
Topics discussed: Irish language, English language, family, childhood, school, travel, music
Languages spoken:
Irish
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-01-31
Relationship between interviewees:
Mother and daughter, and two friends
Topics discussed: school, language, peat moss, animals, food, clothes
Languages spoken:
Ulster Scots, Ulster Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-04-16
Relationship between interviewees:
All members of a gay men's group
Topics discussed: gay, polari, posh, common, lavatory, bog, cottage, swearing
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Nottingham
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: swearing, yoke, knackered, parents, impressions, language modification, Irish, wagging, truancy, skiving, mitching
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Sheffield
Date: 2005-04-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Nathan and Leon - brothers, Jamal no relationship
Topics discussed: slang, MCing, gear, clothes, music, friendship, dialect, swearing, image, garage
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Sheffield
Date: 2005-04-08
Relationship between interviewees:
One retired and two local retailers
Topics discussed: goosed, whatsit, doobrey, Petworth, cockney, pulled a pig, Lionel Blairs, flairs, strides
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Southern Counties Radio
Date: 2004-11-26
Relationship between interviewees:
Mother, daughter and friend
Topics discussed: Britonian, Welsh, Guyanese, Guyana, babe, lob, yummy, toff, D-grade, townie
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Southern Counties Radio
Date: 2005-03-04
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends of Fanny
Topics discussed: daisy roots, Hampstead Heath, pigs ear, Gregory Peck, neck, Cockney, Surrey, currency
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Southern Counties Radio
Date: 2005-03-26
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: buxom, moonlight, rainbow, smock, Petworth, Channon, Lintock, gay, twitten, mizzle
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Southern Counties Radio
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Mother, father and two sons
Topics discussed: martial arts, Hong Kong
Languages spoken:
English, Chinese
Station:
BBC Southern Counties Radio
Date: 2005-02-21
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and neighbours
Topics discussed: sofa, drawing room, george, nanny, settee, grandmother
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC London
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Barry and Tamara are a couple and John Gammie is a friend of theirs
Topics discussed: nudist, nuddy, cotton tails, morals, conceptions, misconceptions, word meanings
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Solent
Date: 2005-03-15
Relationship between interviewees:
Old school friends
Topics discussed: manners, language, dress, education, business, community, civic duty
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Solent
Date: 2005-03-20
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: factory, skint, pianal, posh
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Bristol
Date: 2005-01-20
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends/members of the same drama group
Topics discussed: drama, friendship, children, parenthood, swearing, changing language, desirable accents, public speaking, television
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Date: 2005-03-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Father and daughter, and friend/staff
Topics discussed: family, children, teenagers, friendship, posh, swearing, political correctness, regional accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
Date: 2005-03-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Sky Blues supporters
Topics discussed: football, violence, accent, swearing, discipline, school, young people, family, television
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
Date: 2005-03-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Residents of Keresley village
Topics discussed: mining, family, money, army, house, games, work
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Three colleagues and one friend (Bunty)
Topics discussed: family, relationships, memory, community, rural, remote, men, home
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2004-12-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Alloway Burns Club and friend (Stuart McKinlay)
Topics discussed: family, relationships, childhood, town, history, shipyards, employment
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: RAF, army, military, mining, scab, duck, fire, strike
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Nottingham
Date: 2005-02-02
Relationship between interviewees:
College Friends
Topics discussed: students, sixth form, Asian youth speak
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leicester
Date: 2005-02-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Ex miners
Topics discussed: change, mining, scotland, belonging, pride, unions, generations, pub, toilets, dialect, bogeyman
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leicester
Date: 2004-11-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Football fans and friends
Topics discussed: football, southern, northern, left-handedness, chavs, rugby, tribal, racism, seating, Asian
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leicester
Date: 2004-11-16
Relationship between interviewees:
All members of the Fernie Hunt
Topics discussed: hunting, saboteurs, countryside, livery, hounds, riding, blooded, meaning of life, badger
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leicester
Date: 2005-02-07
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: swearing, market, kids, midlands, women, Spain, code, Brussels, banter
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leicester
Date: 2004-11-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: youth, generations, school, race, fashion, media, friendship, prejudice
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Titch and Teresa are aunt and niece, Hedley and Sandra husband and wife
Topics discussed: rural, farming, friendship, clothing, swearing, generations, mild, childhood
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Date: 2004-11-21
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband, wife and son in the Gould family, plus others unrelated
Topics discussed: Jew, Yiddish, history, worship, synagogue, hands, close-knit, Christianity, friendship
Languages spoken:
English, Yiddish
Station:
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Date: 2005-03-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow prisoners
Topics discussed: prison, friendship, survival, outside, happiness, humour, language, drinking
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Cecilia and Vasco are married, Rui is a friend
Topics discussed: Portuguese, migrant, understanding, home, family, drinking, fashion, money, happiness, prospects
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
Date: 2005-03-05
Relationship between interviewees:
Classmates
Topics discussed: family, accent, youth, woolies, scallies, chav, swearing, left-handedness, pregnancy, kids
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Merseyside
Date: 2004-11-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow Liverpudlians
Topics discussed: family, friendship, black people, media, community, Toxteth riots, jobs
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Merseyside
Date: 2005-03-02
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and workmates
Topics discussed: family, mother, docks, nicknames, swearing, accent, money, Scouse
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Merseyside
Date: 2004-11-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband, wife, daughter and daughter's friend
Topics discussed: back slang, swearing, family, age, work, accent, media, dialect, police
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Merseyside
Date: 2005-03-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: common, Yorkshire, Arabic, netto, snobs, yemen, accent, pet names, moody, mardy, crackers
Languages spoken:
English, Arabic
Station:
BBC Radio Sheffield
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: BMXing, streetriding, accent, Grimsby, parents, swearing, alcohol, skateparks
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Humberside
Date: 2004-11-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: East Riding village life, old farming practices, East Riding dialect, school, accent, swearing, harvesting, future
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Humberside
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: allotments, Cleethorpes, accent, identity, local divisions, swearing, vandalism
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Humberside
Date: 2004-11-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: dance, Hull, performing, accent, parent, influences, names for young people, future, hopes
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Humberside
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: childhood, education, markets, foreign students, swearing, BBC English
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio York
Date: 2004-11-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and members of the Filey Fishermen's Choir
Topics discussed: accent change, children, fishing, nicknames, singing, swearing, school, wartime
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio York
Date: 2004-11-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and members of a drama group
Topics discussed: acting, accent, education, swearing, comedy, media, friendship, wealth, parents
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio York
Date: 2004-11-15
Relationship between interviewees:
Owner of bakery, niece, and friends - some of whom are current former bakery workers
Topics discussed: bakery, ginnel, back alley, outside loos, villagers, townspeople, fender, swearing
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lancashire
Date: 2004-11-19
Relationship between interviewees:
William is Sarah's son, Carmen her aunty and Ruth is a more distant relation
Topics discussed: Romany, gypsy, clairvoyant, caravan, travellers, fortune-teller, secret language
Languages spoken:
English, Romany
Station:
BBC Radio Lancashire
Date: 2005-03-21
Relationship between interviewees:
Abida Husseini, her mother Suraiya, brother Muhammed and family friend Mudassir Khan
Topics discussed: Urdu, swearing, elder, Asian, India, Pakistan, school, Islam, Muslim
Languages spoken:
English, Urdu
Station:
BBC Radio Lancashire
Date: 2005-03-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of a women's group
Topics discussed: pumps, plimsolls, truanting, swearing, raining, clobber, skint, cack-handed, caggyhanded, writing
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lancashire
Date: 2004-12-02
Relationship between interviewees:
Bill and Amanda are married. Amanda runs her own PR company with her friend Olivia
Topics discussed: posh, army, toilets, mummy, nanny, granny, rejection, wealth
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Lancashire
Date: 2004-12-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Mix of friends, strangers and distant relations
Topics discussed: Patois, children, Jamaica, story-telling, swearing, identity, parenthood, accent
Languages spoken:
English, Jamaican Patois
Station:
BBC Radio Leeds
Date: 2004-04-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Grandfather, son and granddaughter
Topics discussed: business, market, bonfire, horses, school, pit, education, produce
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leeds
Date: 2004-11-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Two married couples and two friends
Topics discussed: India, Punjab, Punjabi, Hindi, language, Yorkshiremen, accent, parents, childhood, parenthood, music
Languages spoken:
English, Punjabi
Station:
BBC Radio Leeds
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Acquaintances/friends through rugby
Topics discussed: rugby league, Australianisms, rugby terminology, northern accent, dialect, posh words, childhood words, class, self-consciousness
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Leeds
Date: 2005-03-31
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: swear word, textile worker, slapper, army, youth, galoshes, clothing, accent, slang, tank, Queen's English
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cumbria
Date: 2004-11-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and family: George and Nora are mother and son, Maurice and Joan are uncle and niece
Topics discussed: farming, sheep, tube, gobsmacked, northern, dub, school, cack-handed, rain
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cumbria
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: respect, police, father, mother, pally, rank, misper, Northern
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cumbria
Date: 2005-03-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Acquaintances, fellow business people
Topics discussed: butcher, professional footballers, postman, schooldays, milk round, farming, tourism, countryside
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cumbria
Date: 2005-03-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Classmates except for one adult
Topics discussed: British Sign Language, football, swearing, chav, Michael Caine
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cumbria
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the theatre group
Topics discussed: war, childhood, drinking, school, dialect, family, games, grandparents
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Newcastle
Relationship between interviewees:
All volunteers at the Sunderland Volunteer Life Brigade
Topics discussed: swearing, marriage, babies, family, work, violence, drinking, friendship
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Newcastle
Relationship between interviewees:
Family
Topics discussed: family, mining, socialising, toilets, games, children, dialect
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Newcastle
Relationship between interviewees:
Quiz team/friends
Topics discussed: Geordie, school, game, swearing, charver, makem
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Newcastle
Date: 2004-11-27
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of Durham and Tyneside Dialect Group
Topics discussed: truancy, grandparents, family, drinking, ugliness, dialect, violence, girlfriends
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Newcastle
Relationship between interviewees:
Marjorie Hill is the mother of Glynis Hill, Glynis Hill is the mother of Debbie Hill
Topics discussed: family, accent, church, scouts, play, twins, friendship, work
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cleveland
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Frank and Scott had met before, but for Graham it was a first meeting
Topics discussed: football, supporters, areas, words, ambidextrous, rules, players, hawkers, chavs
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cleveland
Date: 2005-03-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Bob and Farrow are husband and wife and the others are friends
Topics discussed: community, words, understanding, family, grandparents, local, people, kids
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cleveland
Date: 2004-12-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends of more than ten years
Topics discussed: racism, coloured, black, unemployment, training, fashion, qualifications, monarchy, government, childhood, youth, bigot
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cleveland
Date: 2005-03-27
Relationship between interviewees:
Father and son, plus two friends
Topics discussed: community, workingmen, pigeons, clubs, vegetables, prizes, villages, women
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cleveland
Date: 2005-04-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: Asian, women, India, community, left-handedness, television, Bollywood, common, call centres
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Date: 2005-03-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Landlord and customers/friends
Topics discussed: gay, polari, drag queen, swearing, cigarettes, work, holidays, pubs
Languages spoken:
English, Polari
Station:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and fellow musicians
Topics discussed: music, friendship, records, Jamaican, clothes, lyrics, jewellery, cars
Languages spoken:
English, Street slang
Station:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Date: 2004-11-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: brewery, travellers, factory jobs, housing, swearing, drinking, work, children, accent, gangmasters, race, crime, Londoners
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Date: 2005-03-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Classmates, pupils at boarding school
Topics discussed: sixth-formers, rich, wealthy, money, schools, mobile phones, poor, boarding, friendship, teenagers
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: barges, swearing, job titles, barge racing, Thames sailing barges, accent, sailorman, bargeman, bargee
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Essex
Date: 2004-11-21
Relationship between interviewees:
Chris and Andrea are a married couple, both know Jill and Rod
Topics discussed: Estuary English, Essex dialect, Essex accent, slang, London overspill, local phrases, swear words
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Essex
Date: 2005-03-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Father, son, daughter and staff member
Topics discussed: aristocratic, plimsolls, attractiveness, rich, naval terms, upper class, gentry, pregnant, attractive, toilets
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Essex
Date: 2005-04-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Workmates and retired colleagues
Topics discussed: Essex accent, Essex dialect, rural Essex, London, Merseyside, pregnancy, changing standards, male partners, female partners, mother
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Essex
Date: 2005-03-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Workmates and friends
Topics discussed: use of words, change of use of words, loss of accent, lazy speech, Estuary English, playground games, skipping rhymes, swearing, children's bad language
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Essex
Date: 2004-11-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and members of golf club
Topics discussed: finishing school, posh, rich, boarding school, truant, golfing terms, bandits, clothes
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Kent
Relationship between interviewees:
Family
Topics discussed: weather, lifeboat, fish, tourists, vicars, truant, gales, ugly
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Kent
Date: 2004-11-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband and wife
Topics discussed: toilets, weather, gypsy, sayings, accent, babies, black, drunk
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Kent
Date: 2005-01-13
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and one married couple
Topics discussed: housing, family, villages, home, pub, shops, blacksmith, wheelwright, stories
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Suffolk
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow crew members
Topics discussed: lifeboats, maroons, fishing, up-towners, down-towners, drinking, children, parents, toilets
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Suffolk
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues at community centre
Topics discussed: heritage, acceptance, belonging, racism, family, accent, colour, language, childhood, parents, threatened
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Suffolk
Date: 2005-02-05
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and neighbours
Topics discussed: American, north, roundabouts, traffic, accent, travel, neighbours, differences
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Suffolk
Date: 2005-03-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Bar staff and customers
Topics discussed: youngsters, local, texting, children, accent, new, teenagers, language
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Suffolk
Date: 2005-04-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Work colleagues
Topics discussed: work, drinking, swearing, moody, hobbies, left-handedness, school, accent, toilets
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Norfolk
Date: 2005-03-04
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends who play bowls together
Topics discussed: school, left-handedness, drinking, toilets, clothing, grandparents, flooring, youngsters
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Norfolk
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Children all go to the same school
Topics discussed: Finland, truant, accent, drinking, swearing, skint, grumpy, insane, chavs, clothes, family, names
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Norfolk
Date: 2005-03-15
Relationship between interviewees:
All members of a group called FOND
Topics discussed: truant, toys, father, service, lodgers, speech, nit nurse, mobile phones, work, Women's Institute, lavatory
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Norfolk
Date: 2004-11-16
Relationship between interviewees:
College mates
Topics discussed: ladies football, farming, toilets, skating, money, clothes, drinking, floristry, countryside, milking, cold, smoking, agriculture
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Norfolk
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the Chinese community in Plymouth, Devon
Topics discussed: Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, janner, second language, accent
Languages spoken:
English, Cantonese, Mandarin
Station:
BBC Radio Devon
Relationship between interviewees:
Dartmoor residents
Topics discussed: school, accent, wartime, village life, farming, clothes, weather, childhood, harvest, left-handedness, living room, electricity
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Devon
Date: 2004-11-26
Relationship between interviewees:
All the interviewees know the club
Topics discussed: accent, janner, Devonport, speech patterns, innit, hair, raining, drunk, swearing, unwell, proud
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Devon
Date: 2004-12-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Grandmother, mother and daughter
Topics discussed: farmers, landowners, family, women, class, posh, received pronunciation
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Devon
Date: 2005-02-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of three established local families - mothers, sons, brothers, sisters
Topics discussed: fishing, weather, slang, fishermen, localness, community
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Devon
Date: 2005-02-21
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and neighbours
Topics discussed: cutting up, hark, speak posh, speak rough, stupid, potatoes, diluted accents
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cornwall
Date: 2004-12-02
Relationship between interviewees:
All sing in the Marazion Apollo Male Choir
Topics discussed: pilchard, ferret, drone, bussa, ugly, stank
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cornwall
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: weather, clicky handed, toilets, pasties, rats, boy, chuck
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cornwall
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow Methodists and friends
Topics discussed: cat, scat, skint, loaded, monied, hissed, jelly legged, pie eyed, tipsy, slaughtered, ansome, cracker
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cornwall
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: relationships, men, women, accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Cornwall
Date: 2004-11-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends, and two are married
Topics discussed: dating, occupation, Jersey French, farming, Jerriais, Assemblie Jerriaisse
Languages spoken:
English, Jèrriais
Station:
BBC Radio Jersey
Date: 2004-11-08
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends who trained together as nurses
Topics discussed: nursing, ECT, Christmas, hospital, capes, patients, doctors, friendship
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Jersey
Date: 2004-11-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Two friends and an acquaintance
Topics discussed: teachers, swearing, English language, teaching, grammar
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Jersey
Date: 2005-05-06
Relationship between interviewees:
Carlos and Helena are husband and wife and Tino is Carlos's younger brother
Topics discussed: Portuguese, Madeira, hotel, prejudice, schools, immigration, race
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Guernsey
Date: 2005-03-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Ajudicator and competitors in Guernsey French Eistedfodd
Topics discussed: Guernsey French, Norman French, Guernesiaise, English, swearing, jokes, class
Languages spoken:
Guernésiais, English
Station:
BBC Radio Guernsey
Date: 2005-03-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow residents of Maison Maritime
Topics discussed: youth, war, changes, Guernsey language, trousers
Languages spoken:
English, Guernésiais
Station:
BBC Radio Guernsey
Date: 2004-11-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband, wife and son
Topics discussed: Channel Islands, patois, French, blacksmith, farrier, island, school, visitors, Sarkese
Languages spoken:
English, Sercquiais
Station:
BBC Radio Guernsey
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Siblings
Topics discussed: farm, rabbits, poverty, dialect, songs, music, travel, education, deprivation
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Solent
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of William Barnes Society
Topics discussed: William Barnes, Dorset, dialect, poet, nostalgia, folk stories, rivalry, town, country
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Solent
Date: 2004-12-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Know of each other, but not close friends
Topics discussed: farm, gypsy, gypsies, poaching, milking, rabbiting, work, pubs, standards, manners
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Solent
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and colleagues
Topics discussed: weather, swearing, games, clothes, grandparents, toilets, money, appearance, appreciation, dislike
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC London
Date: 2005-03-15
Relationship between interviewees:
Neighbours
Topics discussed: marvin, hank marvin, rhyming-slang, Cockney, knackered, exhausted
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC London
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow members
Topics discussed: Omagh, Tyrone, accent, marshall, Shakespeare, garrison, hoak, tea, gulpin, drunk, mate
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2004-12-08
Relationship between interviewees:
Parents and son
Topics discussed: students, gaeltacht, pastimes, changes, immigrants, standards, bilingualism, work
Languages spoken:
Irish
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-05-05
Relationship between interviewees:
Parents and daughter
Topics discussed: family, parenthood, children, school, education, difficulties, dialect
Languages spoken:
Irish
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-01-24
Relationship between interviewees:
All worked in the former Swindon Railway works which is now defunct
Topics discussed: dialect, county, colloquialisms, route names, works speak, folklore, history
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wiltshire
Date: 2005-03-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Family members
Topics discussed: growing up, Polish language, Polish words, localness, schooling, childhood, London East End, accent, swearing, grammar
Languages spoken:
English, Polish
Station:
BBC Radio Wiltshire
Date: 2005-03-05
Relationship between interviewees:
Committee members
Topics discussed: word use, language, grammar, swearing, accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wiltshire
Date: 2004-11-21
Relationship between interviewees:
All parish councillors, except John Wyeth who is husband of Romy
Topics discussed: Wiltshire-isms, Local dialect, farming, theatrical language, posterity, army language
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wiltshire
Date: 2005-03-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Retired teachers
Topics discussed: drunkenness, pregnancy, attractiveness, temper, sickness, wealth, slippers, babies, friendship, rain, streams
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Shropshire
Date: 2004-11-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Live in same area
Topics discussed: sickness, cold, hungry, pregnant, insane, moody, toilets, anger, friendship, accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Shropshire
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Three (Wayne, Ryan, and Nathan) are brothers. All five are friends and live locally
Topics discussed: farming, agriculture, rural life, greetings, pregnancy, accent, exclamations, pleased, looks, trendy
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Shropshire
Date: 2005-03-15
Relationship between interviewees:
Friend/members of the same group
Topics discussed: writing, accent, moving locations, grammar, language, swearing, advice, understanding, children
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: dialect, mining, toilets, friendship, status, locality, family, age, poetry, thee, thou, butty, Forest of Dean
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Date: 2004-11-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Acquaintances through work and social circles
Topics discussed: ethnic origin, English, second language, barriers, power, communication, generations, buzz words, parenthood, locality, kinship
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Date: 2004-11-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband and wife, and wife's son - a family who also work together
Topics discussed: family, business, language, changing accents, youth speak, swearing, PC language, children, understanding dialects
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and ex-work colleagues
Topics discussed: swearing, parents, local history, grandchildren, language
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Mother and son, plus volunteers at information centre
Topics discussed: illness, clumsiness, television, meaness, wives, husbands, weather, bathing, washing, food, brass, monkey, balls
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Helen and Mark are married. Susan is a colleague of Helen's
Topics discussed: bunk, skive, sleep, posh, granny, pants, spelling, write, parents, alleyway, teacher, room
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Oxford
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends that attend the same church
Topics discussed: methodist, church, clothes, students, husband, Sundays, upbringing, minister
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Oxford
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Amelia and Luke both university students. Tommy goes to sixth form college
Topics discussed: townie, chav, pants, pikey, skiver, lamp, play, knackered, badger, obscene, minging, loaded
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Oxford
Date: 2005-02-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Icolyn Smith and children Gary Smith and Pamela Reid
Topics discussed: Jamaican, slang, warm, mashed, swerve, mad, shad, prison, church, mother, blingin
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Oxford
Date: 2005-03-08
Relationship between interviewees:
Married couples
Topics discussed: swearing, kids, alleyway, family, language, oldies, lanes, knackered
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Three Counties Radio
Date: 2005-04-06
Relationship between interviewees:
Skateboarders
Topics discussed: swearing, skaters, skateboard, accent, TV, clothes, chav, carriers, sponsorship, parents
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Three Counties Radio
Date: 2005-03-31
Relationship between interviewees:
Rana and Monjour are friends, Syed hadn't met them before
Topics discussed: Bangla, English, posh, Sylheti, work, northern, southern, home, friendship
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Three Counties Radio
Date: 2005-04-08
Relationship between interviewees:
Contributors to programmes on Three Counties Radio
Topics discussed: local, ethnic, moving, London, overspill, accent, different, areas, years, Italians, Indian, little, pronounce
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Three Counties Radio
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Two brothers and the wife of one of them
Topics discussed: Hebrew, Yiddish, American, Kosher, family, Jews, tradition, Rabbi
Languages spoken:
English, Yiddish
Station:
BBC Three Counties Radio
Date: 2005-03-24
Relationship between interviewees:
All members of the Luton Irish Forum
Topics discussed: lounge, sofa, miserable, sweater, ganzy, England, Ireland, thingy, work, transfer, daughter, playing, differences, yolk
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Three Counties Radio
Date: 2004-12-02
Relationship between interviewees:
Users of the Victoria Centre
Topics discussed: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Romania, freshy, bilingualism
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Northampton
Date: 2005-04-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow students
Topics discussed: bare, swearing, townies, Northampton accent, bad
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Northampton
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: Scotland, scots
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Northampton
Date: 2005-04-14
Relationship between interviewees:
A couple and two of their friends
Topics discussed: kent, shent, ainagonna, acronyms
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Northampton
Date: 2005-03-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: Scots accent, customers, Kettering accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Northampton
Date: 2004-11-25
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of an historical re-enactment society
Topics discussed: historical, military, clothes, childhood, parental discipline, grandparents, weather, beauty
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: teenagers, street talk, India, racism, family, class, music, television, swearing, text messaging, texting
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire
Date: 2005-03-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Work colleagues
Topics discussed: computers, technology, acronyms, north England, south England, class
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Berkshire
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Classmates
Topics discussed: posh, teenagers, public school, accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Berkshire
Date: 2005-04-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Lyle is married to Myrtle. Jeff and Junior are brothers. Kevin is a friend
Topics discussed: Barbados, Barbadian, Badian, Bajan, black, religion, agriculture, poverty, immigration, first generation, second generation
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Berkshire
Date: 2004-12-08
Relationship between interviewees:
Syndey Waring is the grandfather, Michael Boseley is his son-in law, Donna is Michael's daughter, Daniel is Sydney's grandson and Donna's cousin
Topics discussed: swearing, generations, change, political correctness
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Berkshire
Date: 2004-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Student friends
Topics discussed: slang, Creolese, Mauritian, Asian, marriage, culture, language, drinking, friendship, student
Languages spoken:
English, Mauritian Creole
Station:
BBC Asian Network
Date: 2005-03-20
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: Asian, identity, British, Punjabi, shyletti, Bengali, white
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Asian Network
Date: 2005-04-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: culture, language, religion, politics, British, clothes, appearance, colour, Urdu, English, marriage
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Asian Network
Date: 2004-02-13
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and family
Topics discussed: identity, language, mixture, India, Hindi, roots, Sanskrit, culture, religion
Languages spoken:
English, Guyanese
Station:
BBC Asian Network
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of a badminton club
Topics discussed: badminton, Welsh, radio, record, Chinese, dialect, teach, voice, country, posh
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-20
Relationship between interviewees:
Work colleagues
Topics discussed: newspaper, situations, posh, change, accent, telephone, work, adverts, sell, Punjabi, Welsh, language
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of travelling show community
Topics discussed: travellers, fairground, language, caravans, Scotland, business, words, unique, showman, life, chav
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Family plus a family friend, Joanne Evans
Topics discussed: farm, sheep, dogs, accent, swearing, curse, anger, voice
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2004-11-26
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and acquaintances
Topics discussed: novel, foreign, accent, Welsh, child, properly, research, change, local, gib, dap, no shape
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-11-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Work colleagues
Topics discussed: hotel, Scottish, north, south, accent, speak, Irish, Welsh, words, chef, kitchen
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Family
Topics discussed: accent, valleys, bullying, taunting, Cardiff, nicknames, sayings, speak, abroad, stereotypes
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Relationship between interviewees:
All Members of Treorchy Senior Citizens Club
Topics discussed: tape, recorder, anglicised, talked, down, like, attitudes, foreigners, valleys, Americanised, Welshy
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2004-11-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the Llanelli Scarlets Supporters' Club
Topics discussed: rugby, supporters, beer, game, swear, Welsh, accent, club, scarlets
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-03-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of St. Margaret's Church
Topics discussed: church, youth, shop, accent, voice, children, London, Welsh
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2004-11-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: local, born, swearing, abroad, communication, food, lazy, accent
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2004-11-15
Relationship between interviewees:
Pupils at a school
Topics discussed: swearing, Welsh, English, school, society, natural, speech, conscious, students
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and family
Topics discussed: Welsh, church, understand, cockney, change, accent, speaking, nation
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-03-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Work colleagues
Topics discussed: accent, disappearing, stereotypes, swearing, judgements, speak, Welsh, development, agency, Montgomeryshire
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: swearing, English, newsreaders, incomer, Newcastle, voice, accent, home
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-09
Relationship between interviewees:
All visitors of the East Moors Community Centre
Topics discussed: Wales, valleys, swearing, culture, accent, English, understand, speech, talking
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the New Harmony singing group
Topics discussed: teacher, school, Welsh, first, music, lilting, accent, valleys, shop, holidays, bard
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-02-14
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the Flint Male Voice Choir
Topics discussed: choir, voice, singing, Flint, accent, Geneva, children, change, Chester, South Wales
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Date: 2005-01-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Five members of the local choir and a friend
Topics discussed: farming, nicknames, school, family, girlfriends, the house, traditional idioms, personal interests
Languages spoken:
Welsh, English
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2005-01-26
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends, a married couple and two brothers
Topics discussed: work, collier, coalmines, rugby, friendship, drunk, smoking, family, granddaughter, shopping, strike, patients
Languages spoken:
Welsh, English
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2004-11-15
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: farming, blacksmith, gypsy, garage, animals, proverbs, clothes, friendship, family, drinking, nicknames
Languages spoken:
Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2005-01-06
Relationship between interviewees:
The owner of the cafe, and four of the workers
Topics discussed: idioms, school, weather, moods, house, boyfriends, school adventures, local characters
Languages spoken:
Welsh, English
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2005-04-05
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends, two of them cousins
Topics discussed: family, childhood, school, boyfriends, drinking, friendship, occupational training, mishaps, accidents
Languages spoken:
Welsh, English
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2004-11-13
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: cattle, gun, shoot, Herefordshire, farmers, dost, doctor, patient, ill, surgery
Languages spoken:
Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Relationship between interviewees:
Family members and others are friends
Topics discussed: children, friendship, coalmines, nursing, animals, religion, school life, farming, family
Languages spoken:
Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2005-01-13
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the same community
Topics discussed: children, education, past and present, farming, homes, socialising, personal interests, religion, weather
Languages spoken:
Welsh, English
Station:
BBC Radio Cymru
Date: 2005-01-22
Relationship between interviewees:
Random
Topics discussed: Romany, travellers, relationships, family, children, Scotland, England, childhood, bairn
Languages spoken:
English, Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-03
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of local women's group
Topics discussed: family, relationships, childhood, games, community, weather, poverty, street-life
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Acquaintances brought together by Lorraine Hamilton
Topics discussed: school, family, relationships, history, childhood, parenting, oil, refinery
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-02
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: Scouts, football, ned, sport, drinking, mining, youth, relationships, family
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-04
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: family, relationships, travellers, history, Coldstream Guards, Scotland, England, border
Languages spoken:
Scots, English
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Wellington Church
Topics discussed: West End, education, family, youth, relationships, university, city, property
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends from Stornoway's arts community
Topics discussed: youth, socialising, drinking, friendship, family, relationships, community, Gaelic
Languages spoken:
Scots, Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-01-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Hotel owner and friends
Topics discussed: community, Gaelic, rural, family, weather, childhood, education, Glasgow
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Students/friends
Topics discussed: new words, Doric, country, city, clothes, identity, change, friendship, family, relationships
Languages spoken:
Scots, English
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: memory, community, family, ferry, Irish, travel, work, friendship
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-16
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends/connected by Frank Jack Court
Topics discussed: fishing, farming, memory, pride, parenting, courting, family, community
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-02-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Family (Alexander and Peter Cook are father and son) and friends
Topics discussed: family, community, farming, dialect, relationships, food, rural, animals
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-02
Relationship between interviewees:
Workmates
Topics discussed: family, relationships, memories, childhood, work, community, games, coast, inland
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2004-11-03
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: community, friendship, family, relationships, childhood, paper, charity, town
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow community council members
Topics discussed: tenement, fishing, community, Doric, family, eating, clothing, play, fun, respect
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2004-11-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: family, children, weather, history, housing, Gaelic, community, friendship
Languages spoken:
English, Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-07
Relationship between interviewees:
Course-mates
Topics discussed: clothes, youth, drink, drugs, music, fighting, neds, goths
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues and neighbour (Duncan)
Topics discussed: school, children, family, friendship, class, education, community, relationships
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-02
Relationship between interviewees:
George and Ann Parsonage brother and sister, Margaret Scott is George's housekeeper
Topics discussed: lifesaving, charity work, civic pride, river, Glasgow Green, park, city, family
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2004-11-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Relatives
Topics discussed: community, fishing, remote, rural, family, relationships, fashion, change, wealth
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2004-12-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: family, identity, employment, media, England, Scotland, border, adaptation
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-01-08
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: language, community, family, friendship, tradition, history, Gaelic, culture
Languages spoken:
English, Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Netball team-mates
Topics discussed: family, relationships, netball, clothes, socialising, drinking, children, property
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-17
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow villagers/friends
Topics discussed: royalty, estates, tourism, population, employment, family, Highland dress, relationships
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-02-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: family, relationships, fishing, history, children, work, community, friendship
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of Crieff Rugby Club and their family
Topics discussed: rugby, drinking, work, community, family, socialising, relationships, children
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-01
Relationship between interviewees:
Creative writing/storytelling group members
Topics discussed: class, creative writing, education, housing, tenements, history, story-telling, community, travellers
Languages spoken:
Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2004-11-10
Relationship between interviewees:
Lunch club members
Topics discussed: friendship, family, relationships, food, community, socialising, clothing
Languages spoken:
Scottish Gaelic, English
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-03-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Katherine and Margaret Mackenzie were sisters
Topics discussed: feelings, playing, school games, clothes, fashion, weather, getting personal, Gaelic conversation class, crofting, fishing
Languages spoken:
Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
Date: 2004-11-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: feelings, pastimes, parenthood, weather, furniture, clothes, getting personal, changes in dialects, stapag
Languages spoken:
Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: feelings, heritage, drinking, fishing, crofting, personal, weather signs
Languages spoken:
Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
Date: 2004-11-18
Relationship between interviewees:
All living on the same island and know each other very well
Topics discussed: feelings, crofting, fishing, fashion, weather signs
Languages spoken:
Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
Date: 2004-11-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Norman and Alasdair Campbell are brothers, all four had grown up together in that same district
Topics discussed: feelings, pastimes, weather, fashion, drinking, left-handedness
Languages spoken:
Scottish Gaelic
Station:
BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal
Date: 2004-12-06
Relationship between interviewees:
All former work colleagues and friends
Topics discussed: parents, the Derry mother, Catholicism, living conditions, cooking, courting, punishment, keeping warm in winter, sarcasm, nicknames, wakes, death, factory, Derry accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Foyle
Date: 2004-11-24
Relationship between interviewees:
Quiz team friends
Topics discussed: Strabane, sectarianism, football, family, courtship, funerals, school
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Foyle
Date: 2005-03-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow students
Topics discussed: identity, farming, ditch, Ulster Scots, Irish, being away
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Foyle
Date: 2005-03-21
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends, father and daughter
Topics discussed: band, family, food, protestant culture
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Foyle
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow playwrights
Topics discussed: neighbourhood, local characters, games, football, layout of homes, childhood pastimes, throwing, hitting, pregnancy, lefthandedness, madness
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Foyle
Date: 2004-11-23
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow diving club members
Topics discussed: Port Stewart, property, Scotland, craic, family, millies, mucker, accent, Irish
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow members of Community Association and Mullaghbawn Townland Project
Topics discussed: townland, village, South Armagh, language, speak, school, hanged, friendship, child, couped, house
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2004-12-09
Relationship between interviewees:
Family members and friends
Topics discussed: Portglenone, badger, hoak, proper, bog eel, turf, moss, rasharkin, yarns
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-01-19
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: Drumgor, dead on, Craigavon, craic, mental, hoods, ma, bunk, loaded
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow members of the Augha
Topics discussed: Lough, Erne, customs, heritage, tight, bus, Blackpool, Derrylin, accent, warmth, honesty
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2004-12-14
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband, wife and friend
Topics discussed: gadgie, community, harbour, fishing, mingin, glipe, bull, Belfast, hood, mountains
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends and family (Rosie Mongan and Annmarie Stokes are sisters)
Topics discussed: travellers, site, settled, Gammen, married, schools, police, discrimination
Languages spoken:
English, Shelta
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2004-11-18
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of the Armagh Rhymers
Topics discussed: accent, pollution, America, climate, television, corner shop, open house, mobile phone, conversation
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Relationship between interviewees:
Husband and wife, friends and neighbours
Topics discussed: health, parts of body, marriage, flax, wild birds, countryside, drink
Languages spoken:
Ulster Scots, Ulster Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2004-11-20
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends, all born in the locality, all members of the Ulster Scots Language Society
Topics discussed: language, variety, Chaucer, schooldays, natural history, place names, surnames, survival
Languages spoken:
Ulster Scots, Ulster Scots
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-03-05
Relationship between interviewees:
George and Jan are live-in partners, and are friends with Craig and John
Topics discussed: accent, dialect, childhood, swearing, immigration, community spirit, local words, local food
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC WM
Date: 2004-12-07
Relationship between interviewees:
Colleagues
Topics discussed: cars, customers, sales, swearing, women, Scottish, posh, pregnant
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC WM
Date: 2004-11-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: Patois, Jamaica, Caribbean, teaching, class, drinking, family, angry
Languages spoken:
English, Patois
Station:
BBC WM
Date: 2005-04-11
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends who live in the same village
Topics discussed: village, children, names, family, gay, pregnant, swearing
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC WM
Date: 2004-11-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Family
Topics discussed: Manx, swearing, Irish, toilets, tyveg, starving, change, Manx dialect, teachers, pronunciation, football, swearing, friendship, radio, family, childhood
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Manx Radio
Date: 2005-02-26
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: drinking, ugly, partners, rooms, clothing, raining, bathroom, politeness
Languages spoken:
English, Gujarati, Afrikaans, Manx
Station:
BBC Manx Radio
Date: 2005-02-27
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: Belfast, Chinese, community, cantonese, racism, restaurant, cool, friendship, England, accent
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-07-04
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow members of Sandy Row Residents' Association
Topics discussed: Sandy Row, culture, July, residents, kids, orange, Catholics, housing, flying, cloody
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2005-07-04
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: Welsh, English, drunk, friendship, school, speaking, learning, accent, North Wales
Languages spoken:
English, Welsh
Station:
BBC Radio Wales
Relationship between interviewees:
Neighbours and friends
Topics discussed: The Border, the plantation, partition, Scots Irish, farming, family, courting
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Foyle
Date: 2005-03-29
Relationship between interviewees:
Members of a theatre group
Topics discussed: drama, dance, television, friendship, disabilities, society, hobbies, holidays
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Newcastle
Date: 2005-07-12
Relationship between interviewees:
not given
Topics discussed: locals, school, names, Manx language, insane, perceptions
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Manx Radio
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: moddey, kick, kittyses, kithagy, mooin, gobbraghey, gliggyr, bogey, drunk
Languages spoken:
Manx, English
Station:
BBC Manx Radio
Date: 2005-05-05
Relationship between interviewees:
All friends. Five of them are in a band, two of them are brothers and two of them live together in the place of interview
Topics discussed: cars, drunk, girls, accent, Liverpool, Scotland, Wales, Manx, chav, swearing
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Manx Radio
Date: 2005-03-12
Relationship between interviewees:
Friends
Topics discussed: ditch, baby, Manxness, Chav, female organs, attractiveness, parents
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Manx Radio
Date: 2005-02-28
Relationship between interviewees:
Locals who have always known one another, apart from John who married a local
Topics discussed: weather, personal feelings, descriptions of others, parents, grandparents, drinking, the village
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Scotland
Date: 2005-05-30
Relationship between interviewees:
Fellow members of the Augha
Topics discussed: Lough, Erne, customs, heritage, tight, bus, Blackpool, Derrylin, accent, warmth, honesty
Languages spoken:
English
Station:
BBC Radio Ulster
Date: 2004-12-14
