Geoff Lindsey

For those of a similar name, see Jeff Lindsay (disambiguation).

Geoff Lindsey
Other namesDr Geoff Lindsey
Education
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • writer
  • director
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2009–present
Genres
  • Linguistics
  • education
Subscribers255 thousand[1]
Total views20.2 million[1]
100,000 subscribers
Last updated: 18 June 2024

Geoff Lindsey is a British linguist, writer and director. He has written episodes for television series including the BBC soap opera EastEnders and The Bill, and runs a YouTube channel focusing on linguistics.

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 Inspector Morse: Rest In Peace, and to his first television episode commissions. As a lead writer on the soap opera Family Affairs, he wrote the UK's first ever interactive soap episodes.

Lindsey directed Michael Palin in the short How to Use Your Coconuts for the DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With BreakThru Films, he wrote and directed the short film The Clap starring Steve Furst which was a finalist in Turner Classic Movies Classic Shorts 2005. For BreakThru Films' Magic Piano  [d], Lindsey wrote the screenplay, and selected and arranged the musical score performed by Lang Lang. He also directed Lang Lang and Heather Graham 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 University College London (UCL)[2] and internationally. He was interviewed on intonation as the studio guest of Stephen Fry on the BBC radio series Fry's English Delight.[3] He has argued that the phonetic transcription systems for Received Pronunciation that are used in many dictionaries are outdated, as the upper-class accent of the 20th century has died out.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.[4]

For this reason, Lindsey has created CUBE, an online pronouncing dictionary which is supposed to reflect current pronunciations in Southern British English.[5][6] CUBE was co-edited by Péter Szigetvári, a Hungarian professor of English at ELTE.[6]

Lindsey previously worked as a lecturer in phonetics at University College London. He has a BA in Linguistics from UCL and an MA and PhD from University of California Los Angeles.[7][8]

Lindsey runs a YouTube channel focusing on linguistics.[9] Throughout his channel's lifetime, he has gathered over 250 thousand subscribers and over 20 million views as of 18 June 2024.

  1. ^ a b "About Dr Geoff Lindsey". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Contemporary English Pronunciation: A practical workshop". Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Stephen Fry speaks to Geoff Lindsey about intonation". 23 August 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  4. ^ Lindsey, Geoff (8 March 2012). "The British English vowel system". Speech Talk (blog). Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  5. ^ "CUBE Pronunciation Dictionary". YouTube. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  6. ^ a b "CUBE dictionary".
  7. ^ "English speech services | About". Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Interview with Geoff Lindsey about his pronunciation and phonetics short courses". University College London. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Lindsay's channel".