Being a Polyglot

Michael talks to Alex Rawlings about being a polyglot

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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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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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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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LGBTQIA+ slang

Chloe Davis, creator of The Queen's English dictionary of LGBTQIA+ slang, talks to Michael

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Alphabetical Order

Michael Rosen and historian Judith Flanders talk categories and more.

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Changing Names

Michael Rosen and BBC presenter Ben Boulos talk changing names.

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Romance Fraud

Dr Elisabeth Carter talks to Michael about the language used by romance fraudsters.

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Coinages

Michael Rosen talks to Ralph Keyes about how words and phrases are coined.

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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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The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom

Michael Rosen talks to internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch about online fandom language.

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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 Art of Inventing Languages

Michael Rosen is joined by David J. Peterson, language creator for Game of Thrones.

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Medical English

Michael Rosen asks Dr Sophie Harrison about the special language used by doctors.

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Cultish Language

Michael Rosen and Amanda Montell on who uses it and why.

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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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When people get your name wrong

Michael Rosen on why personal names are mistaken or misspelled, in conversation and online

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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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Words from World War I

Michael Rosen and Professor Lynda Mugglestone explore the new language from World War I.

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When Words Fail Us

Kathryn Mannix and Michael Rosen on how to talk tenderly and and listen well.

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It's language, Jim, but not as we know it

Michael Rosen talks to science communicator Dr Hannah Little.

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Remembering Mother Tongues

Michael Rosen asks Julie Sedivy about what happens when we lose our first language.

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Dropping the Mic and Jumping the Shark: Where Do Modern Idioms Come From?

Michael Rosen talks to Dr Gareth Carrol about the surprising origins of modern idioms.

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John McWhorter on Language

John McWhorter, author and linguist at Columbia University, joins Michael Rosen.

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Talking to Computers

Michael Rosen talks to Lane Greene about advances in language technologies.

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The Language of Sci-Fi

Michael Rosen explores how the vocabulary of sci-fi has entered everyday speech.

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3 Ways to Speak English

Dr Jamila Lyiscott describes to Michael Rosen the 3 ways in which she speaks English.

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The language we use about children in care

Adoptive parent Margaret Reynolds talks about the language used around children in care

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Weather Words

The many different ways we use to talk about the weather

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Nathan Filer on the ways we talk about mental health

Nathan talks with Michael about words we use when talking about mental health.

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