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Word of Mouth
By BBC Radio 4
Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them
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Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival
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Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order
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How babies learn language
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The words we use about getting older and why they matter
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Former astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield on the language of Space exploration
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Fine Distinctions
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A Poet Writing in Three Languages
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How Animals Talk
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Social media language
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Susie Dent's World of Words
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The Language of Genetics
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Jackie Kay on the Scots language
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Politeness with Louise Mullany
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Creating Languages for Film and Television with Professor David Adger
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Talking Cockney
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Old English, New English
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Street Names
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The End of the Full Stop?
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The language that changed the world
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The Welsh Language with Huw Stephens at the Hay Festival
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The Art of Listening
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Speech difficulties
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Keeping My Family's Language Alive
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How to Persuade a Courtroom
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Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
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The Language of the Manosphere
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It's not what you say, it's how you say it
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Julia Donaldson: A life in language
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The Story of A-Z
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Scouse
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Can AI be our friend?
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Aphorisms: Sayings to Live By
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Vincentian Creole
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Tourette Syndrome
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Language Extinction
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Michael Rosen and Dara Ó Briain talk about time
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Oracy: We Need to Talk
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The World of Words: editing, typography and print
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Words to Love the Living World
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How did people speak throughout history?
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Smell
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Fairy Tales
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Gaelic
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How the Normans changed the way we speak
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Bias against women's voices
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Voices of Manchester
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Bouncer George Bass on de-escalating conflict
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Word of Mouth
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Where Did Punctuation Come From?
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- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- Podcast
- Language
- en
- Episodes
- 223
- Format
- episodic
- Website
- www.bbc.co.uk
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