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
Latin word order will often take precedence over a conjunction, and the following word order where the topic (in this case the grammatical subject) precedes "cum" "when" is fairly common: Not every sentence has a topic, but some present information which is entirely new. Pinkster gives the following as an example: Such sentences are sometimes called "presentative sentences" and often start with a verb. The focus is the new information, i.e. the message which is being conveyed to the listener. Often in Latin the topic comes first, and then the focus. For example, in the sentence below, the topic is "in the bathhouse"