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What texting owes to the literary enlightenment. Radio Broadcast, BBC Radio 4 (Arts Feature / Popular Arts Documentary), Tuesday 10th March 2009

‘What texting owes to the literary enlightenment’ was conceived and written by Sally Harrison to explore the issue: What does the development of text-speak have in common with the language of the eighteenth century Literary Enlightenment? In the programme, presenter (comedian, actor and poet) Chris Addison explores the ludic and expressive elements of text-language, or textese, via insights found in the letters of Jonathan Swift and the works of James Joyce and Lewis Carroll; with contributions from contemporary authors Will Self, Ian Rankin, Professors Jeremy Tambling, David Crystal, John Sutherland and poet Scott Tyrell.  The production entailed: primary and secondary academic research, interviewing contributors, choosing appropriate segments of said interviews, structuring the audio and composing a script around this (to which Chris Addison then added his own ‘flavour’ and commentary)