The Word (radio) The Word (radio) The Word was a weekly half-hour radio programme on the BBC World Service about books and writers. Its final edition was in October 2008. Once a month its slot was taken over by "World Book Club", in which listeners submitted questions to a famous writer. Both programmes were presented by Harriett Gilbert. "World Book Club" continues to be broadcast once a month on Saturdays. "The Word" emerged from an earlier World Service book programme "Meridian Books" (which had several presenters, including Michael Rosen, Verity Sharp, and Rosemary Hartill,) as well as a poetry request programme, "Poems by
Name of Poland Polish "Polska" In Latin, which was the principal written language of the Middle Ages, the exonym for Poland became "Polonia". It later became the basis for Poland's name in all Romance languages: Many other languages (e.g. Albanian "Polonia"; Greek Πολωνία, "Polōnía"; Maltese "Polonja") use a variation of the Latin name. Germans, Poland's western neighbors, called it "Polen". Other Germanic languages use related exonyms: Non-Germanic languages which borrowed their word for Poland from Germanic include: The Lendians, a Proto-Polish tribe who lived around the confluence of the rivers Vistula and San (south-eastern Poland), have often misleadingly been associated as the source