Word Of Mouth: Writing Comedy With Isy Suttie

Isy Suttie is an actor and comedian best known for her role in Peep Show and her one woman show Love Letters on Radio 4 as well as many other shows and podcasts.

Here she talks to Michael Rosen about writing her comedy and what informs it. She grew up in Matlock in Derbyshire and a deep love as well of knowledge of the place and its people find their way into her humour. Words ending in consonants too are much funnier than those ending in a vowel she says. And as for learning Welsh to impress her partner her song written to show off her language skills to him is a linguistic masterpiece!

This programme is a single episode of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme about the English language, which began in 1992.