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Word of Mouth

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Released On: 19 Feb 2019

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Michael Rosen talks to the authors of The Talking Revolution about improving our dialogue.

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Listen and learn: how to make better conversation
Michael Rosen talks to the authors of The Talking Revolution about improving our dialogue.
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Biscuit Names
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look into the weird and wonderful world of biscuit names.
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Jeffrey Boakye on black-related words
Jeffrey Boakye talks to Michael Rosen about exploring black identity through language.
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The Language of Comics
Michael Rosen explores the visual language of comics, with comics theorist Neil Cohn.
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Romani
Damian Le Bas talks to Michael Rosen about the Romani language.
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The First Language
What was the earliest language and how did it evolve? Michael Rosen investigates.
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Raymond Antrobus
Michael Rosen meets acclaimed poet Raymond Antrobus.
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The most powerful word
Michael Rosen explores the strange history of 'The', the most influential word in English.
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Glyn Maxwell
Michael Rosen explores the sound and rhythm of English with poet Glyn Maxwell.
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Vikings
Michael Rosen discovers how the Vikings changed English.
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Philosophy in English
Michael Rosen looks at philosophy in English, from John Locke to corporate slogans.
28 mins
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Gabriel Gbadamosi
Michael Rosen meets London-born writer Gabriel Gbadamosi, to talk Dickens and dialect.
28 mins
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The Language of Science
Michael Rosen looks at how English is used in Science.
28 mins
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Anglo Saxon
Michael Rosen explores the origins of English in the Anglo-Saxon world.
28 mins
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Metaphors
Michael Rosen returns to explore how metaphors shape our lives with author James Geary.
28 mins
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Communicating Climate Change
Michael Rosen talks to George Marshall about how best to communicate climate change.
28 mins
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Lying
Michael Rosen talks to Professor Dawn Archer about how we might tell when someone is lying
28 mins
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NHS language use
Michael Rosen on how the NHS chooses words on its website and in consultants' letters.
28 mins
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Real Talk
Michael Rosen talks to conversation analyst Elizabeth Stokoe about the science of talk.
28 mins
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Sindhu Vee
Michael talks to comedian Sindhu Vee about her life in language.
28 mins
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The power of telling stories
Michael Rosen talks to storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy about the wonder of stories.
28 mins
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The Language of the Pandemic
Professor Tanya Byron examines the language of Covid-19 with author Mark Honigsbaum.
28 mins
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The language of power and inequality in education and leadership
Jeffrey Boakye talks with Iesha Small on the language of power and inequality in education
28 mins
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Words Used About Women
From hussy to bossy, spinster to slut, Professor Deborah Cameron on words used about women
28 mins
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Othering through the centuries: Translation to acronyms
Sabrina Mahfouz talks to Tobi Kyeremateng and Katherine Harloe about othering in language.
28 mins
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Talking to Strangers
Professor Tanya Byron sitting in for Michael Rosen on talking to strangers.
28 mins
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Black masculinity and language
Jeffrey Boakye on the language of black masculinity in a post-colonial world.
28 mins
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Protest Slogans
Sabrina Mahfouz talks about protest slogans with Siana Bangura and Zoe Buckman.
28 mins
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Talking Disability
Talking disability with Samantha Renke
28 mins
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How to Disagree
Michael Rosen and Darren Chetty explore ways of disagreeing that could help to unite us.
28 mins
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Being a Polyglot
Michael talks to Alex Rawlings about being a polyglot
28 mins
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Adam Bradley: The Poetry of Pop
Adam Bradley joins Michael from Los Angeles and talks about the poetry of pop
28 mins
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Bulls and Bears: animal metaphors in business language
Michael Rosen asks why there are so many terms related to animals in the business world.
28 mins
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Hilary Mantel in conversation with Michael Rosen
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall, talks to Michael Rosen about her life in language.
28 mins
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LGBTQIA+ slang
Chloe Davis, creator of The Queen's English dictionary of LGBTQIA+ slang, talks to Michael
28 mins
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Alphabetical Order
Michael Rosen and historian Judith Flanders talk categories and more.
28 mins
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Changing Names
Michael Rosen and BBC presenter Ben Boulos talk changing names.
28 mins
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Romance Fraud
Dr Elisabeth Carter talks to Michael about the language used by romance fraudsters.
28 mins
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Coinages
Michael Rosen talks to Ralph Keyes about how words and phrases are coined.
28 mins
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Speech and Language Therapy
Michael Rosen talks to the speech and language therapist who helped him after Covid-19.
28 mins
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The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom
Michael Rosen talks to internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch about online fandom language.
28 mins
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Why is English so weird?
Michael Rosen hears why our language is a bit of a mess from linguist Arika Okrent
28 mins
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The Art of Inventing Languages
Michael Rosen is joined by David J. Peterson, language creator for Game of Thrones.
28 mins
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Medical English
Michael Rosen asks Dr Sophie Harrison about the special language used by doctors.
28 mins
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Cultish Language
Michael Rosen and Amanda Montell on who uses it and why.
28 mins
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Accent Bias
Michael Rosen asks Devyani Sharma about the latest research into accent bias in the UK.
28 mins
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When people get your name wrong
Michael Rosen on why personal names are mistaken or misspelled, in conversation and online
28 mins
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Digital body language: how to work online
Michael Rosen gets advice from Erica Dhawan on the best ways to communicate on-screen.
28 mins
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Words from World War I
Michael Rosen and Professor Lynda Mugglestone explore the new language from World War I.
28 mins
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When Words Fail Us
Kathryn Mannix and Michael Rosen on how to talk tenderly and and listen well.
28 mins
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It's language, Jim, but not as we know it
Michael Rosen talks to science communicator Dr Hannah Little.
28 mins
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Remembering Mother Tongues
Michael Rosen asks Julie Sedivy about what happens when we lose our first language.
28 mins
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Dropping the Mic and Jumping the Shark: Where Do Modern Idioms Come From?
Michael Rosen talks to Dr Gareth Carrol about the surprising origins of modern idioms.
28 mins
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John McWhorter on Language
John McWhorter, author and linguist at Columbia University, joins Michael Rosen.
28 mins
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Talking to Computers
Michael Rosen talks to Lane Greene about advances in language technologies.
28 mins
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The Language of Sci-Fi
Michael Rosen explores how the vocabulary of sci-fi has entered everyday speech.
28 mins
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3 Ways to Speak English
Dr Jamila Lyiscott describes to Michael Rosen the 3 ways in which she speaks English.
28 mins
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The language we use about children in care
Adoptive parent Margaret Reynolds talks about the language used around children in care
28 mins
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Weather Words
The many different ways we use to talk about the weather
28 mins
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Nathan Filer on the ways we talk about mental health
Nathan talks with Michael about words we use when talking about mental health.
28 mins
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What is language actually good for?
Nick Enfield and Michael Rosen on language being good for lawyers but bad for scientists.
28 mins
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My Stammer Story
Michael Rosen asks William Laven about how he has learnt to celebrate his stammer.
28 mins
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Lords and Ladies: Folk Names for Plants and Flowers
The different names we call our common plants and flowers around the British Isles.
28 mins
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The Art of Apologies
Michael Rosen talks to sociolinguist Louise Mullany about all the ways we say sorry.
28 mins
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Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing
The evolving lexicon of online dating
28 mins
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A Murmuration of Starlings
Michael Rosen talks to Matt Sewell about collective nouns in the animal world.
28 mins
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Like
Linguist Carmen Fought talks to Michael about 'like' in all its forms.
28 mins
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Nihal Arthanayake on conversation
Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake talks to Michael about the art of conversation.
28 mins
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Exclamation Marks!!
Michael Rosen exclaims excitedly over exclamation marks with Florence Hazrat.
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Band names
Bob Stanley talks band names, from the rubbish to the brilliant.
28 mins
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Grammar Table
Michael Rosen is joined by grammar fanatic Ellen Jovin.
28 mins
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Snap Crackle and Every Little Helps - the language of food advertising
Michael Rosen delves into the fascinating world of food and drink advertising.
28 mins
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Subtitles
Karli Witkowska, the subtitler behind TV shows including Stranger Things, explains her job
28 mins
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Interpreting for Mum and Dad
Sanmeet Kaur has been interpreting for her parents since the age of five.
28 mins
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Richard Osman's love of language
Richard Osman talks in depth to Michael Rosen about his broadcasting and writing lives.
28 mins
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The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison
Michael Rosen talks to Andy West who teaches philosophy in prisons
28 mins
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Psychiatrist and Patient
Neuropsychiatrist Anthony David talks to Michael.
28 mins
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A Load of Nonsense
Michael Rosen talks nonsense literature and made-up words with Noreen Masud.
28 mins
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Chatbots
Professor of computational linguistics Emily M Bender chats all things bot with Michael
28 mins
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Women's Words
Dr Jenni Nuttall talks to Michael about the words used by and about women.
28 mins
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The Language of Fascism
The Language of Fascism
28 mins
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Learning Yiddish
Michael Rosen with his Yiddish language teacher Tamara Micner.
27 mins
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Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky
An insight into the world of a simultaneous interpreter.
28 mins
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Audio description: putting art into words
Audio describer Lonny Evans and trainer Terry James talk about how to describe art.
28 mins
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The stories behind our names
Michael talks to Sheela Banerjee about the family and cultural histories revealed by names
28 mins
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Fandom
Michael Bond talks to Michael Rosen about the ways in which fans talk to each other.
28 mins
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Therapy Speak
Susie Orbach talks to Michael Rosen about the use and misuse of 'therapy speak'.
28 mins
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Everyday Shakespeare
Are you quoting Shakespeare without even realising?
28 mins
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Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie
Comedian Isy Suttie on how she writes comedy
28 mins
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A Life in Lexicography
Lexicographer Grant Barrett on dictionaries.
28 mins
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Words for Sale!
Dr Pip Thornton and Michael Rosen explore how language has become an online commodity.
28 mins
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Unequal English
Michael Rosen is joined by Ruanni Tupas to discuss English from around the world.
28 mins
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Are you different in another language?
Can speaking another language change your behaviour, your decisions, even your morals?
28 mins
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Family Sayings
Michael shares listeners' stories about words and phrases passed down through families.
28 mins
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How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett
Michael Rosen is joined by Gillian Tett, columnist at the Financial Times.
28 mins

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