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Word of MouthEpisodes

  1. Aphorisms: Sayings to Live By

    Michael Rosen talks to James Geary about aphorisms, AKA literature's hand luggage

  2. Can AI be our friend?

    Michael Rosen talks to Jennifer Cearns about the rise of AI companions.

  3. Scouse

    Liverpool English with Professor Tony Crowley.

  4. The Story of A-Z

    Michael Rosen journeys down the A-Z on an alphabetical odyssey with linguist Danny Bate.

  5. Julia Donaldson: A life in language

    The Gruffalo author tells Michael Rosen about her writing, reading, speaking and listening

  6. It's not what you say, it's how you say it

    Michael Rosen on clichés, pragmatics and how language is used to connect us beyond words.

  7. The Language of the Manosphere

    Michael Rosen hears how words are used as weapons against women

  8. Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words

    Michael Rosen and Dr Catherine Laing discuss words that sound like their meanings.

  9. How to Persuade a Courtroom

    Michael Rosen talks to defence barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind about courtroom language.

  10. Keeping My Family's Language Alive

    Michael Rosen asks Samantha Ellis about the language spoken by her mum and dad.

  11. Speech difficulties

    Michael Rosen asks what happens to people's sense of identity when speaking becomes hard.

  12. The Art of Listening

    Michael Rosen talks to Dr Haru Yamada about how we listen, and how we can do it better.

  13. Lists

    Michael Rosen and linguistics researcher Jo Nolan discuss the joy of making lists.

  14. The Welsh Language with Huw Stephens at the Hay Festival

    Michael Rosen talks to Welsh radio and TV presenter Huw Stephens about the Welsh language.

  15. The language that changed the world

    Michael Rosen hears about the origin of all Indo-European languages from Laura Spinney.

  16. The End of the Full Stop?

    Michael Rosen and Christian Ilbury discuss how online chat is changing how we punctuate.

  17. Street Names

    Michael Rosen talks to Philip Seargeant about where our street names come from.

  18. Old English, New English

    Michael Rosen on the Old English words used in daily life then and now, with Hana Videen.

  19. Talking Cockney

    Michael talks cockney with Andy Green and Saif Osmani from the Modern Cockney Festival.

  20. Creating Languages for Film and Television with Professor David Adger

    Michael Rosen asks a linguist how he invents new languages for TV series and films.

  21. Politeness with Louise Mullany

    Professor Louise Mullany talks politeness, and how it governs every sphere of our lives.

  22. Jackie Kay on the Scots language

    Jackie Kay has written a book in Scots and tells Michael about her love of the language.

  23. The Language of Genetics

    Adam Rutherford joins Michael to unpick the knotty language we use to talk about genetics.

  24. Susie Dent's World of Words

    Susie Dent joins Michael to talk about her lifelong fascination with words and languages.

  25. Social media language

    How language is used on platforms like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter/X.

  26. How Animals Talk

    Michael hears about how animals communicate, and why, from zoologist Arik Kershenbaum.

  27. A Poet Writing in Three Languages

    Poet Nabeela Ahmed on being multilingual.

  28. Fine Distinctions

    Eli Burnstein talks about fine distinctions between words.

  29. Former astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield on the language of Space exploration

    The Canadian former astronaut and author talks about communicating Space

  30. The words we use about getting older and why they matter

    How we talk about getting older can affect how we age. Michael hears from Dr Lucy Pollock.

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