{"id":1192,"date":"2011-07-16T13:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2011-07-16T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:32:57","slug":"frys-english-delight-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/16\/frys-english-delight-the-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Fry&#8217;s English Delight &#8211; The Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/why-qwerty\/ \">Fry\u2019s English Delight<\/a> is back on BBC Radio 4. <\/p>\n<p>The first programme, titled \u2018The Mouth\u2019 talks about the origins of speech and language. Stephen Fry asks \u201cif you were an intelligent designer, would you combine the food processor and the word processor in the same unit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The programme also hears from<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ventriloquist Nina Conti explains how she has learned to over-rule the automatic functions of her mouth. A facial surgeon gives us the tour of the inside of the mouth and a psychologist discusses humanity&#8217;s earliest form of happy oral communication &#8211; or language. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b012fbpn \">BBC<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new series is on BBC Radio 4 on Monday\u2019s and also available on iPlayer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new series of Fry\u2019s English Delight is back on BBC Radio 4. The first programme, titled \u2018The Mouth\u2019 talks about the origins of speech and language. Stephen Fry asks \u201cif you were an intelligent designer, would you combine the food processor and the word processor in the same unit?&#8221; The programme also hears from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,40],"tags":[3,51,332,988,1016],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language-acquisition","tag-english","tag-language","tag-language-development","tag-language-origins","tag-the-mouth-and-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}