Language

More or Less. Are natural disasters on the rise? Audio, 28 minutes
Has the number of natural disasters really quadrupled in the last forty years?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Symbols of Bliss. Audio, 28 minutes
How Charles Bliss attempted to bring about world peace through a new visual language.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Americanize!: Why the Americanisation of English is a Good Thing. Audio, 28 minutes
Susie Dent explores Americanisms in British English – should we love not loathe them?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
All in the Mind. Heart failure; Insiders' Guide to Mental Health; Use of you. Audio, 28 minutes
Heart failure; Insiders' Guide to Mental Health; Use of you.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Why Words Matter. Audio, 23 minutes
Lane Greene explains how the words we choose can tell us a great deal about ourselves.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
The Language of Others. Audio, 28 minutes
Times columnist Iain Martin examines the role of language differences in social divides.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Essay. Burgess at 100, Burgess and Language - Kevin Jackson. Audio, 15 minutes
An essay by Kevin Jackson about writer Anthony Burgess.
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The Essay. Changing My Mind, Words. Audio, 15 minutes
Julian Barnes on how he uses words, asking what did they ever mean and what they mean now.
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The Forum. Reawakening Language. Audio, 28 minutes
How can we save or 'reawaken' dying languages?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Essay. The Art of Storytelling, The Art of Storytelling: David Crystal. Audio, 15 minutes
Professor David Crystal asks how we can preserve for the future the story of language.
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Discovery. Benefits of Bilingualism - Part Two. Audio, 27 minutes
The benefits of bilingualism: keeping our minds healthy
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Word of Mouth. Snuck and Sung: Irregular Verbs. Audio, 28 minutes
Michael Rosen explores the verbs that are called irregular, and how they came to be.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Discovery. Benefits of Bilingualism - Part One. Audio, 27 minutes
Gaia Vince explores the benefits of bilingualism for children
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Seelonce, Seelonce: A Call for Help. Audio, 30 minutes
An exploration of the history and the development of the language of the call for help.
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
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.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
The Forum. Reawakening Language. Audio, 41 minutes
Reawakening language and culture
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
The Listeners. Series 3, Episode 1. Audio, 28 minutes
Professional listeners reveal how there is far more to listening than hearing.
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BBC 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.
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BBC 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.
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BBC 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.
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BBC 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.
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CBeebies
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.
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BBC 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.
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BBC 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.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year