Word of Mouth
By BBC Radio 4
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Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them
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How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Family Sayings
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Are you different in another language?
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Words for Sale!
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Unequal English
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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A Life in Lexicography
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Everyday Shakespeare
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Therapy Speak
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Fandom
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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The stories behind our names
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Audio description: putting art into words
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Learning Yiddish
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Chatbots
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May 12, 2023 |
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The Language of Fascism
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May 09, 2023 |
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Women's Words
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May 02, 2023 |
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A Load of Nonsense
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Psychiatrist and Patient
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Richard Osman's love of language
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Interpreting for Mum and Dad
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Subtitles
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Snap Crackle and Every Little Helps - the language of food advertising
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Grammar Table
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Band names
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Exclamation Marks!!
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Nihal Arthanayake on conversation
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Like
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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A Murmuration of Starlings
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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The Art of Apologies
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Lords and Ladies: Folk Names for Plants and Flowers
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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My Stammer Story
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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What is language actually good for?
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May 10, 2022 |
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Nathan Filer on the ways we talk about mental health
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May 03, 2022 |
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Weather Words
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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The language we use about children in care
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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3 Ways to Speak English
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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The Language of Sci-Fi
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Talking to Computers
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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John McWhorter on Language
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Dropping the Mic and Jumping the Shark: Where Do Modern Idioms Come From?
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Remembering Mother Tongues
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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It's language, Jim, but not as we know it
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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When Words Fail Us
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Words from World War I
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Digital body language: how to work online
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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When people get your name wrong
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Accent Bias
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Cultish Language
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Medical English
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The Art of Inventing Languages
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Why is English so weird?
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom
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May 11, 2021 |
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Speech and Language Therapy
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May 04, 2021 |
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Coinages
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Romance Fraud
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Changing Names
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Alphabetical Order
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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LGBTQIA+ slang
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Hilary Mantel in conversation with Michael Rosen
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Bulls and Bears: animal metaphors in business language
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Being a Polyglot
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Adam Bradley: The Poetry of Pop
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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How to Disagree
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Talking Disability
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Protest Slogans
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Black masculinity and language
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Talking to Strangers
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Othering through the centuries: Translation to acronyms
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Words Used About Women
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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The language of power and inequality in education and leadership
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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The Language of the Pandemic
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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The power of telling stories
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Sindhu Vee
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Real Talk
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Communicating Climate Change
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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NHS language use
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Lying
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Metaphors
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Anglo Saxon
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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The Language of Science
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Gabriel Gbadamosi
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Philosophy in English
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Vikings
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Glyn Maxwell
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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The most powerful word
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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The First Language
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Raymond Antrobus
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Romani
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May 14, 2019 |
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The Language of Comics
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May 07, 2019 |
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Jeffrey Boakye on black-related words
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Biscuit Names
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Listen and learn: how to make better conversation
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Dyslexia
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Talk of the Town: How Places Got Their Names
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Solving crime with forensic linguistics
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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Demystifying the language of the courtroom
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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How to talk funny with Elis James
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Raymond Williams' Keywords
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Communication and Dementia
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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T-Shirt Slogans
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Multicultural London English
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Lane Greene on Editing
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Give 'em an inch... imperial and metric
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Stephen Fry and Michael Rosen talk language
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Shop Names
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May 22, 2018 |
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How to talk like a Samaritan
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May 15, 2018 |
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The Words That Saved Me
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May 08, 2018 |
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Me, Myself & AI
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May 01, 2018 |
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Naming Emotions
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Not My Type
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Words Apart
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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Haggard Hawks
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Language and Gender Identity
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Naming Diseases
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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Best wishes, kind regards or none of the above?
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Michael Gets Voice Training
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Hello! Is it me you're looking for? - The art of greetings
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Pub Names
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Language and Our Genes with Dr Steve Jones
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Autism and Communication
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Wild Words
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Are we all speaking football?
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Oct 02, 2017 |
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Malorie Blackman on Language
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Eat My Words: How to Describe Food Flavours
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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David Walliams on writing for children
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May 23, 2017 |
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Game On: The Language of Video Games
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May 16, 2017 |
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The Postbag Edition
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May 09, 2017 |
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Cucks, snowflakes and virtue signalling: the new US political lexicon
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May 02, 2017 |
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Jacqueline Wilson talks to Michael Rosen about language
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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How Countries Got Their Names
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Frenchified: The Influence of French on English
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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Like, Totally Awesome: The Americanisation of English
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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Emoji: The Future of Language?
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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Intonation: The Music of Speaking
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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Pet or Pest? The revealing words we use about animals, and dog names
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Words Roadshow in Birmingham
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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Susie Dent on Language
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Reading: The Science and the Pleasure
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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Snotrils and Jumpolines: Kids' Invented Words
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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Small Talk
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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Directions: North South East and West
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Lost Words and Secret Connections
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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Break Ups and Brexit
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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Punctuation
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May 24, 2016 |
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Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements
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May 17, 2016 |
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Snuck and Sung: Irregular Verbs
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May 10, 2016 |
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Roald Dahl's Language
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May 03, 2016 |
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PR - How Not To Do It
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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Metaphors for the Past: From Dinosaurs to Victorian Values
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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House Names
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Apr 12, 2016 |
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Steven Pinker on Language
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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Tip of the Tongue
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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Talking or Texting?
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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Mouthpiece: Turning the Spoken Word into Songs
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Taking Turns in Conversation
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Feb 09, 2016 |
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The Top 20 Words in English
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Feb 02, 2016 |
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How Shakespeare Spoke
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Slang
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Jan 19, 2016 |
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Language Evolution: A Gene for Language?
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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Gorilla gorilla gorilla: Latin names for animals and plants
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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The Alphabet
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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Inventing Brand Names
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Oct 12, 2015 |
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Romance and Romanticism
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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Reading: Print v eBooks
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Number Words
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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Non-Verbal Communication
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May 26, 2015 |