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Cutting A Dash (eats, Shoots & Leaves)

AuthorLynne Truss

NarratorLynne Truss

Duration1h 10m

CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, General Non Fiction

PublisherBBC

VersionUnabridged

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This is the Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves'. Over five programmes Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation; for example, she accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on the hunt for the 'greengrocer's apostrophe'!

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