Introduced by Melvyn Bragg, Word of Mouth traces the pattern of speech in Britain.

Cockney Lives OK focuses on the familiar workingclass accent synonymous with London's East End, charting the origin of some common cockney phrases and discussing some of the preconceptions about people who use them. With more and more East End residents relocating to the Essex commuter belt, and a new generation of multicultural, multilingual Londoners growing up in the area, what does the future hold for the Cockney dialect?

Originally broadcast 12 August, 1976





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