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Word of Mouth Episodes

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    Reading: Print v eBooks

    Michael Rosen examines the differences between reading print books and reading eBooks.

  2. Number Words

    Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at how numbers are understood - and misunderstood.

  3. Non-Verbal Communication

    Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss non-verbal communication with Prof Steven Connor.

  4. Food Connections Festival

    Michael Rosen and guests perform poems, songs and stories about food.

  5. Young Women as Linguistic Innovators

    Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss the role of young women in language innovation.

  6. Colour Words

    Michael Rosen and Laura Wright on colour words, how they vary and how they have changed.

  7. Naming Family Relationships - Step, Half or 'Blended'?

    Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at the names people give to family relationships.

  8. A Language Without Words

    Michael Rosen asks Julian Barratt and Steve Oram about creating a language without words.

  9. The Pedant

    What is a pedant, and where does pedantry come from? Michael Rosen talks to Oliver Kamm.

  10. Landscape Language

    Michael Rosen on the evocative words used to describe features of the British landscape.

  11. Prof Tanya Byron on the language parents use to talk to their children

    Tanya Byron and Michael Rosen discuss the language parents use to talk to their children.

  12. Are you really Somali? Using language to determine country of origin

    Michael Rosen on the use of language analysis to judge asylum seekers' country of origin.

  13. Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen talk about language and writing

    Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen talk in depth about language and writing.

  14. How Is English Going to Change in the future?

    Michael Rosen looks ahead, with the help of linguists Bas Aarts and Laura Wright.

  15. Why do we laugh?

    Michael Rosen finds out why we laugh and why we cry, with neuroscientist Sophie Scott.

  16. Ebola: How should we talk about it?

    Michael Rosen talks to Oxfam's media officer on how we should speak about Ebola.

  17. First Words: How do children develop language?

    Michael Rosen on the first sounds and words that babies learn.

  18. Speaking, Listening and the English GCSE

    Chris Ledgard host a discussion on speaking and listening skills and the English GCSE.

  19. Is the Double Entendre in Rude Health?

    Arthur Bostrom examines the origins, colourful history and new era of the double entendre.

  20. Talking About Cancer

    The writer Graham Joyce with a personal take on the ways in which we talk about cancer.

  21. The Online Me

    Are we different online than in real life? Gemma Cairney asks Nick Grimshaw and friends.

  22. How the Telephone Rewired Us

    Chris Ledgard explores the impact of the telephone.

  23. Newspeak

    Chris Ledgard explores Orwell's dystopian vision of the future of language - Newspeak.

  24. Message in a Bottle

    Chris Ledgard uncorks the subject of messages in a bottle.

  25. Weighing Your Words

    Chris Ledgard investigates three situations where precise use of words is crucial.

  26. Reader, I Marinated Him - the language of food

    Michael Rosen and guests debate the language of food, from Oliver's 'more' to cannibalism.

  27. Words That Wound

    Words can be abusive, cruel and cause offence. Which is worse: online or face-to-face?

  28. Time

    Michael Rosen asks what time is and explores the words we use to talk about it.

  29. Scots

    Michael Rosen goes to Glasgow to hear about the Scots language with Sanjeev Kohli.

  30. Social Register

    Do we change the way we speak according to the person we are speaking to?

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