MYW Mailbag: Pronunciation Debates – Milngavie, Bearsden, Gotham… Tortoise!?

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Laura and Iain dive into the inbox and face a full on tribunal from Living Legends across the UK. Is it “Mull-guy”? What about "Gotham"? And how do you say “tortoise”? Iain’s mum, Allison, might just have the final word.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.4	You should grade history, really.
0:07.6	You know, rather than listening to me.
0:10.4	What happens when you unravel your family's past
0:13.1	and discover a buried confession?
0:15.7	And your father was an expert in gases?
0:19.6	In poison gas.
0:21.2	Poison gas, yes.
0:22.8	A new documentary series about family secrets
0:25.6	and how the past lives on inside us,
0:28.4	even when we try to ignore it.
0:30.3	I started to wonder what else
0:31.9	had slipped from my great-grandfather's memory
0:34.2	while writing his memoirs.
0:36.9	A new documentary series by me, Joe Dunthorne.
0:40.3	Listen to Half-Life on BBC Sounds.
0:47.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Radio Podcasts.
0:59.3	Hello, Living Legends.
1:01.0	We're back with a mailbag episode.
1:02.6	We're back with a mailbag.
1:08.1	We're going to read about you, about your pets, about your strangest thoughts, about your case suggestions, and some of you have even got a funny anecdote or two, I imagine.
1:12.8	I know we always say this, but I cannot stress just how many great emails we get.
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