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Words from World War I
Michael Rosen and Professor Lynda Mugglestone explore the new language from World War I.
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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.
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When people get your name wrong
Michael Rosen on why personal names are mistaken or misspelled, in conversation and online
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Accent Bias
Michael Rosen asks Devyani Sharma about the latest research into accent bias in the UK.
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Cultish Language
Michael Rosen and Amanda Montell on who uses it and why.
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Medical English
Michael Rosen asks Dr Sophie Harrison about the special language used by doctors.
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The Art of Inventing Languages
Michael Rosen is joined by David J. Peterson, language creator for Game of Thrones.
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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
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The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom
Michael Rosen talks to internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch about online fandom language.
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Speech and Language Therapy
Michael Rosen talks to the speech and language therapist who helped him after Covid-19.
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Coinages
Michael Rosen talks to Ralph Keyes about how words and phrases are coined.
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Romance Fraud
Dr Elisabeth Carter talks to Michael about the language used by romance fraudsters.
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Changing Names
Michael Rosen and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ presenter Ben Boulos talk changing names.
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Alphabetical Order
Michael Rosen and historian Judith Flanders talk categories and more.
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LGBTQIA+ slang
Chloe Davis, creator of The Queen's English dictionary of LGBTQIA+ slang, talks to Michael
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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.
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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.
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Adam Bradley: The Poetry of Pop
Adam Bradley joins Michael from Los Angeles and talks about the poetry of pop
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Being a Polyglot
Michael talks to Alex Rawlings about being a polyglot
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How to Disagree
Michael Rosen and Darren Chetty explore ways of disagreeing that could help to unite us.
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Talking Disability
Talking disability with Samantha Renke
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Protest Slogans
Sabrina Mahfouz talks about protest slogans with Siana Bangura and Zoe Buckman.
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Black masculinity and language
Jeffrey Boakye on the language of black masculinity in a post-colonial world.
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Talking to Strangers
Professor Tanya Byron sitting in for Michael Rosen on talking to strangers.
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Othering through the centuries: Translation to acronyms
Sabrina Mahfouz talks to Tobi Kyeremateng and Katherine Harloe about othering in language.
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Words Used About Women
From hussy to bossy, spinster to slut, Professor Deborah Cameron on words used about women
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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
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The Language of the Pandemic
Professor Tanya Byron examines the language of Covid-19 with author Mark Honigsbaum.
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The power of telling stories
Michael Rosen talks to storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy about the wonder of stories.
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Sindhu Vee
Michael talks to comedian Sindhu Vee about her life in language.
