Language
Word of Mouth. Steven Pinker on Language. Audio, 28 minutes
Steven Pinker joins Michael Rosen to talk about his love of, and life in, language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Word of Mouth. Language Evolution: A Gene for Language? Audio, 28 minutes
Neuroscientist Dr Frederique Liegeois joins Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. We Are Writing a Poem about Home. Audio, 30 minutes
A radio poem from Kate Clanchy and the Very Quiet Foreign Girls.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
More or Less. Dementia, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate. Audio, 28 minutes
Tim Harford asks whether one in three people born in the UK this year will get dementia.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Messy Goes to OKIDO. Series 1, Felix Finds His Voice. Video, 11 minutes
Messy hears a bird outside his window, but he can't understand what the bird is saying.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
The Life Scientific. Dorothy Bishop on language disorders. Audio, 28 minutes
Why do some children find language difficult? Dorothy Bishop talks about her life's work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. In the Shadow of Kafka, Transformer. Audio, 15 minutes
Playwright Jeff Young explores the unusually powerful impact of Kafka's language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Panini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint. Audio, 15 minutes
The life and legacy of Panini, master of the Sanskrit language and original nerd.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
What the Songbird Said. Audio, 28 minutes
Angela Saini explores the science of birdsong and its relationship to human language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Word of Mouth. Young Women as Linguistic Innovators. Audio, 28 minutes
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss the role of young women in language innovation.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Jargon. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do we use jargon?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Short Cuts. Series 7, The Conversation. Audio, 30 minutes
Josie Long hears stories of intimate conversations - including the 'dual form'.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
This is Me Totally Sausage. Audio, 30 minutes
Henning Wehn looks at the difficulties of speaking and understanding English.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Analysis. You Can't Say That. Audio, 30 minutes
Is there a right to cause offence? Edward Stourton explores the limits of free expression.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Out of the Ordinary. Series 3, Esperanto. Audio, 28 minutes
Jolyon Jenkins explores Esperanto, the language designed to bring world peace and harmony.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A History of Ideas. Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and Human Language. Audio, 13 minutes
Philosopher Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and human language
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio, Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio: Samuel West. Audio, 15 minutes
Actor Samuel West explores the art of performance and declarative language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Dr Hepcat and the Hepster's Dictionary. Audio, 30 minutes
Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary of jive talk
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
The Digital Human. Series 6, Language. Audio, 30 minutes
Aleks Krotoski asks if language is a technology and how it has changed in the digital age.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Germany: Memories of a Nation. Fairy Tales and Forests: The Grimms and Caspar David Friedrich. Audio, 15 minutes
Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Germany: Memories of a Nation. Luther and a Language for All Germans. Audio, 15 minutes
Neil MacGregor examines how Luther created the modern German language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Forum. Multilingualism. Audio, 28 minutes
The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Samuel Beckett - Happy Days, Lost in Translation. Audio, 15 minutes
Director Netia Jones on the relationship between words and music in Samuel Beckett's work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
