All Episodes
Word of Mouth — 218 episodes
How the Normans changed the way we speak
Gaelic
Fairy Tales
Smell
How did people speak throughout history?
Words to Love the Living World
The World of Words: editing, typography and print
Oracy: We Need to Talk
Michael Rosen and Dara Ó Briain talk about time
Language Extinction
Tourette Syndrome
Vincentian Creole
Aphorisms: Sayings to Live By
Can AI be our friend?
Scouse
The Story of A-Z
Julia Donaldson: A life in language
It's not what you say, it's how you say it
The Language of the Manosphere
Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
How to Persuade a Courtroom
Keeping My Family's Language Alive
Speech difficulties
The Art of Listening
Lists
The Welsh Language with Huw Stephens at the Hay Festival
The language that changed the world
The End of the Full Stop?
Street Names
Old English, New English
Talking Cockney
Creating Languages for Film and Television with Professor David Adger
Politeness with Louise Mullany
Jackie Kay on the Scots language
The Language of Genetics
Susie Dent's World of Words
Social media language
How Animals Talk
A Poet Writing in Three Languages
Fine Distinctions
Former astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield on the language of Space exploration
The words we use about getting older and why they matter
How babies learn language
Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order
Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival
Language When There Are No Words
The Irish Language
Disaster Dialogue
Football Club Names
How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett
Family Sayings
Are you different in another language?
Words for Sale!
Unequal English
A Life in Lexicography
Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie
Everyday Shakespeare
Therapy Speak
Fandom
The stories behind our names
Audio description: putting art into words
Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky
Learning Yiddish
Chatbots
The Language of Fascism
Women's Words
A Load of Nonsense
Psychiatrist and Patient
The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison
Richard Osman's love of language
Interpreting for Mum and Dad
Subtitles
Snap Crackle and Every Little Helps - the language of food advertising
Grammar Table
Band names
Exclamation Marks!!
Nihal Arthanayake on conversation
Like
A Murmuration of Starlings
The Art of Apologies
Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing
Lords and Ladies: Folk Names for Plants and Flowers
My Stammer Story
What is language actually good for?
Nathan Filer on the ways we talk about mental health
Weather Words
The language we use about children in care
3 Ways to Speak English
The Language of Sci-Fi
Talking to Computers
John McWhorter on Language
Dropping the Mic and Jumping the Shark: Where Do Modern Idioms Come From?
Remembering Mother Tongues
It's language, Jim, but not as we know it
When Words Fail Us
Words from World War I
Digital body language: how to work online
When people get your name wrong
Accent Bias
Cultish Language
Medical English
The Art of Inventing Languages
Why is English so weird?
The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom
Speech and Language Therapy
Coinages
Romance Fraud
Changing Names
Alphabetical Order
LGBTQIA+ slang
Hilary Mantel in conversation with Michael Rosen
Bulls and Bears: animal metaphors in business language
Being a Polyglot
Adam Bradley: The Poetry of Pop
How to Disagree
Talking Disability
Protest Slogans
Black masculinity and language
Talking to Strangers
Othering through the centuries: Translation to acronyms
Words Used About Women
The language of power and inequality in education and leadership
The Language of the Pandemic
The power of telling stories
Sindhu Vee
Real Talk
Communicating Climate Change
NHS language use
Lying
Metaphors
Anglo Saxon
The Language of Science
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Philosophy in English
Vikings
Glyn Maxwell
The most powerful word
The First Language
Raymond Antrobus
Romani
The Language of Comics
Jeffrey Boakye on black-related words
Biscuit Names
Listen and learn: how to make better conversation
Dyslexia
Talk of the Town: How Places Got Their Names
Solving crime with forensic linguistics
Demystifying the language of the courtroom
How to talk funny with Elis James
Raymond Williams' Keywords
Communication and Dementia
T-Shirt Slogans
Multicultural London English
Lane Greene on Editing
Give 'em an inch... imperial and metric
Stephen Fry and Michael Rosen talk language
Shop Names
How to talk like a Samaritan
The Words That Saved Me
Me, Myself & AI
Naming Emotions
Not My Type
Words Apart
Haggard Hawks
Language and Gender Identity
Naming Diseases
Best wishes, kind regards or none of the above?
Michael Gets Voice Training
Hello! Is it me you're looking for? - The art of greetings
Pub Names
Language and Our Genes with Dr Steve Jones
Autism and Communication
Wild Words
Are we all speaking football?
Malorie Blackman on Language
Eat My Words: How to Describe Food Flavours
David Walliams on writing for children
Game On: The Language of Video Games
The Postbag Edition
Cucks, snowflakes and virtue signalling: the new US political lexicon
Jacqueline Wilson talks to Michael Rosen about language
How Countries Got Their Names
Frenchified: The Influence of French on English
Like, Totally Awesome: The Americanisation of English
Emoji: The Future of Language?
Intonation: The Music of Speaking
Pet or Pest? The revealing words we use about animals, and dog names
Words Roadshow in Birmingham
Susie Dent on Language
Reading: The Science and the Pleasure
Snotrils and Jumpolines: Kids' Invented Words
Small Talk
Directions: North South East and West
Lost Words and Secret Connections
Break Ups and Brexit
Punctuation
Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements
Snuck and Sung: Irregular Verbs
Roald Dahl's Language
PR - How Not To Do It
Metaphors for the Past: From Dinosaurs to Victorian Values
House Names
Steven Pinker on Language
Tip of the Tongue
Talking or Texting?
Mouthpiece: Turning the Spoken Word into Songs
Taking Turns in Conversation
The Top 20 Words in English
How Shakespeare Spoke
Slang
Language Evolution: A Gene for Language?
Gorilla gorilla gorilla: Latin names for animals and plants
The Alphabet
Inventing Brand Names
Romance and Romanticism
Reading: Print v eBooks
Number Words
Non-Verbal Communication