25 minutes | Thursday, 12 December 2019
Manx Radio's weekly programme looking at Manx life from a different angle, exploring the historical, social, linguistic and academic issues. Professor Angela Little recounts how a book about the Isle of Man published in Norwegian in 1979 by Jon Leirfall was passed on to her by an academic colleague and friend. Unable to read Norwegian, Professor Little discovered that Norwegian was one of the many languages at the command of Dr Jennifer Kewley Draskau, who quickly translated what has been published by Culture Vannin as 'A Thousand Years in Man'. She speaks about the book and about other books in Norwegian which she has been championing. And we hear of Bengali polymath, Rabindranath Tagore, and a proposed project by singer and broadcaster, Sravanti Mazumdar, bringing together Tagore's work in Bengali with versions in the Manx language. She tells us something about her background in Bengal and her love of the Island, which has been her adopted home since 1994.