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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

Football Club Names

Dominic Fifield explains how football clubs got their names.

• 28 mins

Disaster Dialogue

Professor Lucy Easthope explains why language is important in the aftermath of a disaster.

• 28 mins

The Irish Language

What the Irish language tells us about the world

• 28 mins

Language When There Are No Words

Joshua Reno talks about how Charlie, his non verbal-autistic son, communicates with him.

• 28 mins

Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival

In conversation with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival.

• 28 mins

Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order

Michael explores the mysterious rules of word order with linguist Dr Laura Bailey.

• 28 mins

How babies learn language

Professor Julian Pine on how babies learn language.

• 28 mins

The words we use about getting older and why they matter

How we talk about getting older can affect how we age. Michael hears from Dr Lucy Pollock.

• 28 mins

Former astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield on the language of Space exploration

The Canadian former astronaut and author talks about communicating Space

• 28 mins

Fine Distinctions

Eli Burnstein talks about fine distinctions between words.

• 28 mins

A Poet Writing in Three Languages

Poet Nabeela Ahmed on being multilingual.

• 28 mins

How Animals Talk

Michael hears about how animals communicate, and why, from zoologist Arik Kershenbaum.

• 28 mins

Social media language

How language is used on platforms like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter/X.

• 28 mins

Susie Dent's World of Words

Susie Dent joins Michael to talk about her lifelong fascination with words and languages.

• 28 mins

The Language of Genetics

Adam Rutherford joins Michael to unpick the knotty language we use to talk about genetics.

• 28 mins

Jackie Kay on the Scots language

Jackie Kay has written a book in Scots and tells Michael about her love of the language.

• 28 mins

Politeness with Louise Mullany

Professor Louise Mullany talks politeness, and how it governs every sphere of our lives.

• 28 mins