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Fri, 6 December 2024

7:30 pm - 8:45 pm GMT

Gyles Brandreth – A Magical Tour of Our Mother Tongue

Live on Stage in London

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Join the Just a Minute star, bestselling author and English language virtuoso Gyles Brandreth for a hilarious tour of the English language – with absolutely no hesitation, repetition, or deviation.

Gyles Brandreth has been delighting listeners of Radio 4 with verbal fireworks since his first appearance on Just a Minute in 1981. Now he joins How To Academy to put us through our paces, offering a whirlwind trip through the English language: from the origins of words and phrases, to correct grammar and punctuation, from similes and euphemisms to record-breaking tongue twisters.

If you want to know what bungalows have to do with Bengal, how English came to be the most spoken language in the world (and one of the biggest, with over half a million words), what on earth Victorian opium addict Thomas de Quincy was up to when he ‘apricated himself in the occasional moonbeams’, and what the salty parrot said to his new owner when he got home from the pet shop, this live event is an unmissable, one-of-a-kind treat.

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Gyles Brandreth

Writer, Broadcaster, Podcaster

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, podcaster, and regular on Just A Minute, QI, Celebrity Gogglebox, and This Morning. A former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and founder of the ‘Poetry Together’ project which brings schoolchildren and older people together to learn poetry by heart. His many books include the best-selling poetry anthology, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, and the international best- seller about spelling and punctuation, Have You Eaten Grandma?. With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award- winning podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple, all about words and language. He also presents the Rosebud podcast where he explores the first memories of famous people. Gyles is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown and has three children, seven grandchildren, and lives in London with his wife, his jumpers, two rooms full of dictionaries and Nala, the neighbour’s cat.

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