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Qualification? I'm French!

James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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The Touchwood Answer to the Touchwood Question

How do pallets pronounce certain letters, for example, P without lips? We use our lips to form the sound. But a ventriloquist can do all the words in the world. Parrots and plosives I've written down. That's what we're looking for, isn't it? Ben in Bradford, question or answer? Hi, James. How do parrots do plosives? How do they do any noise? It's got nothing to do with P's and B's. And parrots just use a completely different biological mechanism to mimic human speech from the ones that we use to actually do human speech. Remind everybody when you're on LBC Saturday

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