Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
Lingua Franca
- Narrated by: Angus Freathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Lingua Franca
Buy Now for £13.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Long-listed for The Guardian's Not the Booker prize 2016.
There's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness....
Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to him.
The founder of Lingua Franca - a naming-rights agency committed to renaming every UK town after a corporate sponsor - Miles recounts the story of his quest for linguistic supremacy to anyone who'll listen. Confined to his hospital bed in a deathly quiet ward, Miles seeks to find his colleagues and reunite with his true love.
But in doing so, Miles must confront his deepest held convictions and consider, what's in a name? in a world where the spoken word has been replaced with silence.
Critic reviews
"William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often." (Matt Haig, author)
"Remarkable." (Caroline Smailes, author)
"This is bloody brilliant." (Heydon Prowse, writer of the Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised)