MYW Mailbag: How do you pronounce Archipelago again?

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Laura and Iain revisit Hull and Ruth Ellis in emails from Living Legends. In the inbox, they find a hibernating tortoise, a 21-year-old goldfish and a hat-wearing gecko - oh my!

Plus, they fight to pronounce ‘archipelago’ once more. both struggle to pronounce ‘archipelago’ once more.

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0:29.6	I'm Doc Garthick Maga.
0:32.1	X-Man, the Elon Musk origin story.
0:35.3	Listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:43.7	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:52.8	We're back with another mailbag episode today because we love any excuse to dive into the inbox,
0:55.6	don't we, Ian?
0:56.1	We sure do.
0:57.5	I like doing these because I feel it's us connecting with our living legends.
1:01.0	We are connecting with you and we really are.
1:02.9	It's my favourite.
1:03.6	It reminds me when I was a kid I used to write in.
1:05.3	I wrote into the den once.
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