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
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources the other covering 1066 to 1600 for a dictionary of "late medieval British Latin". By 1932 the Academy felt that they could usefully publish the first fruits of the project, which appeared in 1934 as the "Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources", prepared by J. H. Baxter and Charles Johnson. A "Revised Word-List" prepared by Ronald Latham appeared in 1965. The DMLBS was published in printed fascicules, from 1975 to 2013, by Oxford University Press: A binding case for the first five fascicules was supplied with Fascicule V, forming a first volume (A–L). However, no further binding cases