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The School of Life Sunday Sermon: Susie Dent on tribes

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Time 11:20
Date 30/10/16
Price £20
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Countdown’s Susie Dent takes The School of Life’s Sunday Sermon on a whirlwind tour through the weird and wonderful subcultures of Great Britain.

Have you ever wondered why football managers all speak the same way, what a cabbie calls the Houses of Parliament, or how ticket inspectors discreetly request back-up? We are surrounded by hundreds of tribes, each speaking their own distinct slanguage of colourful words, jokes and phrases, honed through years of conversations on the battlefield, in A&E, backstage and at ten-thousand feet in the air.

As the resident word-expert on Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent knows her way around the English language. In this Sunday Sermon, she’ll show you how to decode modern Britain’s secret languages and discover what really makes us tick.

Since 2008 The School of Life has presented strictly secular Sunday Sermons exploring the values we should live by today. They ask maverick cultural figures to give us their take on the virtues to cling to or the vices to be wary of in our complex world.

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