Black masculinity and language

Jeffrey Boakye on the language of black masculinity in a post-colonial world.

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Protest Slogans

Sabrina Mahfouz talks about protest slogans with Siana Bangura and Zoe Buckman.

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Talking Disability

Talking disability with Samantha Renke

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How to Disagree

Michael Rosen and Darren Chetty explore ways of disagreeing that could help to unite us.

• 28 mins

Being a Polyglot

Michael talks to Alex Rawlings about being a polyglot

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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

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

Hilary Mantel in conversation with Michael Rosen

Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall, talks to Michael Rosen about her life in language.

• 28 mins

LGBTQIA+ slang

Chloe Davis, creator of The Queen's English dictionary of LGBTQIA+ slang, talks to Michael

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Alphabetical Order

Michael Rosen and historian Judith Flanders talk categories and more.

• 28 mins

Changing Names

Michael Rosen and BBC presenter Ben Boulos talk changing names.

• 28 mins

Romance Fraud

Dr Elisabeth Carter talks to Michael about the language used by romance fraudsters.

• 28 mins

Coinages

Michael Rosen talks to Ralph Keyes about how words and phrases are coined.

• 28 mins

Speech and Language Therapy

Michael Rosen talks to the speech and language therapist who helped him after Covid-19.

• 28 mins

The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom

Michael Rosen talks to internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch about online fandom language.

• 28 mins

Why is English so weird?

Michael Rosen hears why our language is a bit of a mess from linguist Arika Okrent

• 28 mins

The Art of Inventing Languages

Michael Rosen is joined by David J. Peterson, language creator for Game of Thrones.

• 28 mins

Medical English

Michael Rosen asks Dr Sophie Harrison about the special language used by doctors.

• 28 mins

Cultish Language

Michael Rosen and Amanda Montell on who uses it and why.

• 28 mins

Accent Bias

Michael Rosen asks Devyani Sharma about the latest research into accent bias in the UK.

• 28 mins

When people get your name wrong

Michael Rosen on why personal names are mistaken or misspelled, in conversation and online

• 28 mins

Digital body language: how to work online

Michael Rosen gets advice from Erica Dhawan on the best ways to communicate on-screen.

• 28 mins

Words from World War I

Michael Rosen and Professor Lynda Mugglestone explore the new language from World War I.

• 28 mins

When Words Fail Us

Kathryn Mannix and Michael Rosen on how to talk tenderly and and listen well.

• 28 mins

It's language, Jim, but not as we know it

Michael Rosen talks to science communicator Dr Hannah Little.

• 28 mins

Remembering Mother Tongues

Michael Rosen asks Julie Sedivy about what happens when we lose our first language.

• 28 mins

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

John McWhorter on Language

John McWhorter, author and linguist at Columbia University, joins Michael Rosen.

• 28 mins

Talking to Computers

Michael Rosen talks to Lane Greene about advances in language technologies.

• 28 mins

The Language of Sci-Fi

Michael Rosen explores how the vocabulary of sci-fi has entered everyday speech.

• 28 mins

3 Ways to Speak English

Dr Jamila Lyiscott describes to Michael Rosen the 3 ways in which she speaks English.

• 28 mins

The language we use about children in care

Adoptive parent Margaret Reynolds talks about the language used around children in care

• 28 mins

Weather Words

The many different ways we use to talk about the weather

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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

What is language actually good for?

Nick Enfield and Michael Rosen on language being good for lawyers but bad for scientists.

• 28 mins

My Stammer Story

Michael Rosen asks William Laven about how he has learnt to celebrate his stammer.

• 28 mins

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

The Art of Apologies

Michael Rosen talks to sociolinguist Louise Mullany about all the ways we say sorry.

• 28 mins

Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing

The evolving lexicon of online dating

• 28 mins

A Murmuration of Starlings

Michael Rosen talks to Matt Sewell about collective nouns in the animal world.

• 28 mins

Like

Linguist Carmen Fought talks to Michael about 'like' in all its forms.

• 28 mins

Nihal Arthanayake on conversation

Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake talks to Michael about the art of conversation.

• 28 mins

Exclamation Marks!!

Michael Rosen exclaims excitedly over exclamation marks with Florence Hazrat.

• 28 mins

Band names

Bob Stanley talks band names, from the rubbish to the brilliant.

• 28 mins

Grammar Table

Michael Rosen is joined by grammar fanatic Ellen Jovin.

• 28 mins

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

Subtitles

Karli Witkowska, the subtitler behind TV shows including Stranger Things, explains her job

• 28 mins

Interpreting for Mum and Dad

Sanmeet Kaur has been interpreting for her parents since the age of five.

• 28 mins

Richard Osman's love of language

Richard Osman talks in depth to Michael Rosen about his broadcasting and writing lives.

• 28 mins

The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison

Michael Rosen talks to Andy West who teaches philosophy in prisons

• 28 mins

Psychiatrist and Patient

Neuropsychiatrist Anthony David talks to Michael.

• 28 mins

A Load of Nonsense

Michael Rosen talks nonsense literature and made-up words with Noreen Masud.

• 28 mins

Chatbots

Professor of computational linguistics Emily M Bender chats all things bot with Michael

• 28 mins

Women's Words

Dr Jenni Nuttall talks to Michael about the words used by and about women.

• 28 mins

The Language of Fascism

The Language of Fascism

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Learning Yiddish

Michael Rosen with his Yiddish language teacher Tamara Micner.

• 27 mins

Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky

An insight into the world of a simultaneous interpreter.

• 28 mins

Audio description: putting art into words

Audio describer Lonny Evans and trainer Terry James talk about how to describe art.

• 28 mins

The stories behind our names

Michael talks to Sheela Banerjee about the family and cultural histories revealed by names

• 28 mins

Fandom

Michael Bond talks to Michael Rosen about the ways in which fans talk to each other.

• 28 mins

Therapy Speak

Susie Orbach talks to Michael Rosen about the use and misuse of 'therapy speak'.

• 28 mins

Everyday Shakespeare

Are you quoting Shakespeare without even realising?

• 28 mins

Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie

Comedian Isy Suttie on how she writes comedy

• 28 mins

A Life in Lexicography

Lexicographer Grant Barrett on dictionaries.

• 28 mins

Words for Sale!

Dr Pip Thornton and Michael Rosen explore how language has become an online commodity.

• 28 mins

Unequal English

Michael Rosen is joined by Ruanni Tupas to discuss English from around the world.

• 28 mins

Are you different in another language?

Can speaking another language change your behaviour, your decisions, even your morals?

• 28 mins

Family Sayings

Michael shares listeners' stories about words and phrases passed down through families.

• 28 mins

How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett

Michael Rosen is joined by Gillian Tett, columnist at the Financial Times.

• 28 mins