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Word of Mouth: The Language of Sci-Fi

Series 1296, episode 1

Michael Rosen explores how the vocabulary of sci-fi has entered everyday speech. Jesse Sheidlower, formerly of the Oxford English Dictionary, began compiling a dictionary of sci-fi 20 years ago and has been updating it ever since. He brings Michael Rosen up to speed with current parlance in the SF world and explores the origins of words and sayings to do with robotics, extraterrestrial life and space exploration

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Michael Rosen