Geoff Lindsey is a British linguist, writer and director who has written episodes for television series including the BBC

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'' and ''

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''. Lindsey trained in directing at the Bournemouth Film School, where he wrote and directed the short film ''The Band Parts'' starring Graham Fellows. In 1999 he was selected for the Carlton Screenwriters course. This led to his writing the anthology tribute ''

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: Rest In Peace'', and to his first television episode commissions. As a lead writer on the soap opera ''

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'', he wrote the UK's first ever interactive soap episodes. Lindsey directed

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in the short ''How to Use Your Coconuts'' for the DVD of ''

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''. With BreakThru Films, he wrote and directed the short film ''The Clap'' starring

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which was a finalist in

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Classic Shorts 2005. For BreakThru Films' Magic Piano, Lindsey wrote the screenplay, and selected and arranged the musical score performed by

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. He also directed Lang Lang and

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in the live action segments of the feature-length The Flying Machine. Lindsey is also a pronunciation coach and gives workshops on contemporary English pronunciation, at

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and internationally. He was interviewed on intonation as the studio guest of

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on the BBC radio series Fry's English Delight. He has argued that the

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systems for

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that are used in many dictionaries are outdated, as the upper-class accent of the 20th century has died out. He has proposed a replacement transcription system for a more modern form of British English. Lindsey previously worked as a lecturer in

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at University College London. He has a BA from UCL and an MA and PhD from University of California Los Angeles.

References

External links

Lindsey's writer-director website
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