The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language, the Oxford English Dictionary. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project: a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books.
Georges Simenon's French detective has four more cases to solve in this these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. The stories are The Yellow Dog , Inspector Cadaver , Maigret's Little Joke and Maigret and the Burglar's Wife