{"id":3282,"date":"2014-10-24T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:41:07","slug":"david-hornsby-on-bbc-radio-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/10\/24\/david-hornsby-on-bbc-radio-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hornsby on BBC Radio Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/hornsby.html\">Dr David Hornsby<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a> was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland this week. David was heard on the 20 October 2014 edition of <em>MacAulay and Co<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking in response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/organisation\/publications\/languages-future\">British Council\u2019s recommendation<\/a> that the most advantageous languages to learn for the future include Mandarin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/hispanicstudies\/portuguese\/index.html\">Portuguese<\/a>, Russian and Turkish. David argues that these are languages that will become more economically and politically influential\u00a0in the future.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0interview occurs 58 minutes into the programme; the full programme lasts approximately 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The programme can be heard on the BBC\u2019s iPlayer here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04l3w4d\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04l3w4d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Hornsby from the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland this week. David was heard on the 20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/10\/24\/david-hornsby-on-bbc-radio-scotland\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}