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Recent items from Full Name, Please
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Full Name Please: Omnibus Edition
9:10 AM.Amelia Nurse looks below the surface of the names of people we encounter every day. Originally in four parts, this is the combined version of this popular documentary series. Audio
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Dolpins - bonus audio
9:06 AM.We've established that human naming systems are infinitely complex - but what about the animal world? It turns out that we're not the only ones to use names. Dolphins have individual names as well… Read more Audio
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Part 3 - Further Abroad
9:03 AM."If you should have a boy, do not christen him John...'Tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more fortunate." John Keats is not the only one to feel this… Read more Audio
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Part 2 - Broadening Our Horizons
9:02 AM.Samuel Goldwyn once said, "Every Tom, Dick and Harry is called Arthur." Well that's clearly not true - especially if you're from China. In the second of the series Full Name Please, Amelia Nurse looks… Read more Audio
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Part 1 - The Basics
9:01 AM."Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit." That's what Salman Rushdie thought… Read more Audio