201 Episodes

  1. Game On: The Language of Video Games

    Published: 16/05/2017
  2. The Postbag Edition

    Published: 09/05/2017
  3. Cucks, snowflakes and virtue signalling: the new US political lexicon

    Published: 02/05/2017
  4. Jacqueline Wilson talks to Michael Rosen about language

    Published: 25/04/2017
  5. How Countries Got Their Names

    Published: 18/04/2017
  6. Frenchified: The Influence of French on English

    Published: 11/04/2017
  7. Like, Totally Awesome: The Americanisation of English

    Published: 28/02/2017
  8. Emoji: The Future of Language?

    Published: 21/02/2017
  9. Intonation: The Music of Speaking

    Published: 14/02/2017
  10. Pet or Pest? The revealing words we use about animals, and dog names

    Published: 07/02/2017
  11. Words Roadshow in Birmingham

    Published: 31/01/2017
  12. Susie Dent on Language

    Published: 18/10/2016
  13. Reading: The Science and the Pleasure

    Published: 11/10/2016
  14. Snotrils and Jumpolines: Kids' Invented Words

    Published: 04/10/2016
  15. Small Talk

    Published: 27/09/2016
  16. Directions: North South East and West

    Published: 20/09/2016
  17. Lost Words and Secret Connections

    Published: 13/09/2016
  18. Break Ups and Brexit

    Published: 06/09/2016
  19. Punctuation

    Published: 24/05/2016
  20. Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements

    Published: 17/05/2016

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