201 Episodes

  1. Fine Distinctions

    Published: 12/09/2024
  2. Former astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield on the language of Space exploration

    Published: 05/09/2024
  3. The words we use about getting older and why they matter

    Published: 29/08/2024
  4. How babies learn language

    Published: 22/08/2024
  5. Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order

    Published: 13/06/2024
  6. Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival

    Published: 06/06/2024
  7. Language When There Are No Words

    Published: 30/05/2024
  8. The Irish Language

    Published: 23/05/2024
  9. Disaster Dialogue

    Published: 16/05/2024
  10. Football Club Names

    Published: 09/05/2024
  11. How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett

    Published: 20/02/2024
  12. Family Sayings

    Published: 13/02/2024
  13. Are you different in another language?

    Published: 06/02/2024
  14. Words for Sale!

    Published: 23/01/2024
  15. Unequal English

    Published: 22/01/2024
  16. A Life in Lexicography

    Published: 17/01/2024
  17. Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie

    Published: 09/01/2024
  18. Everyday Shakespeare

    Published: 22/08/2023
  19. Therapy Speak

    Published: 15/08/2023
  20. Fandom

    Published: 08/08/2023

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