Sarah Ogilvie: The Dictionary People

<div>In this week's Book Club podcast I'm talking to Sarah Ogilvie about the extraordinary story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, as told in her new <em>The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary</em>. She tells me why the OED was different in kind from any previous English dictionary, how crowdsourcing made it 'the Wikipedia of its day', and how – as she discovered – quite so many cranks, murderers, perverts and foreigners took such an interest in it.</div>