Word of Mouth

by BBC Radio 4
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Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them

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Recent Episodes
  • Old English, New English
    Feb 20, 2025 – 27:38
  • Talking Cockney
    Feb 13, 2025 – 27:35
  • Creating Languages for Film and Television with Professor David Adger
    Feb 6, 2025 – 27:52
  • Politeness with Louise Mullany
    Jan 30, 2025 – 27:40
  • Jackie Kay on the Scots language
    Jan 23, 2025 – 27:29
  • The Language of Genetics
    Jan 16, 2025 – 27:56
  • Susie Dent's World of Words
    Jan 9, 2025 – 27:55
  • Social media language
    Oct 3, 2024 – 27:59
  • How Animals Talk
    Sep 26, 2024 – 27:39
  • A Poet Writing in Three Languages
    Sep 22, 2024 – 27:44
  • Fine Distinctions
    Sep 12, 2024 – 27:37
  • Former astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield on the language of Space exploration
    Sep 5, 2024 – 27:46
  • The words we use about getting older and why they matter
    Aug 29, 2024 – 27:43
  • How babies learn language
    Aug 22, 2024 – 27:46
  • Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order
    Jun 13, 2024 – 28:03
  • Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival
    Jun 6, 2024 – 43:40
  • Language When There Are No Words
    May 30, 2024 – 27:31
  • The Irish Language
    May 23, 2024 – 35:02
  • Disaster Dialogue
    May 16, 2024 – 27:35
  • Football Club Names
    May 9, 2024 – 27:34
  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett
    Feb 20, 2024 – 27:46
  • Family Sayings
    Feb 13, 2024 – 27:43
  • Are you different in another language?
    Feb 6, 2024 – 27:47
  • Words for Sale!
    Jan 23, 2024 – 27:49
  • Unequal English
    Jan 22, 2024 – 27:51
  • A Life in Lexicography
    Jan 17, 2024 – 27:39
  • Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie
    Jan 9, 2024 – 27:50
  • Everyday Shakespeare
    Aug 22, 2023 – 27:25
  • Therapy Speak
    Aug 15, 2023 – 27:35
  • Fandom
    Aug 8, 2023 – 27:48
  • The stories behind our names
    Aug 1, 2023 – 28:02
  • Audio description: putting art into words
    Jul 25, 2023 – 27:41
  • Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky
    Jul 17, 2023 – 27:39
  • Learning Yiddish
    Jul 11, 2023 – 27:38
  • Chatbots
    May 12, 2023 – 27:42
  • The Language of Fascism
    May 9, 2023 – 27:33
  • Women's Words
    May 2, 2023 – 27:55
  • A Load of Nonsense
    Apr 18, 2023 – 27:23
  • Psychiatrist and Patient
    Apr 11, 2023 – 27:41
  • The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison
    Apr 4, 2023 – 27:40
  • Richard Osman's love of language
    Feb 21, 2023 – 47:22
  • Interpreting for Mum and Dad
    Feb 14, 2023 – 27:47
  • Subtitles
    Feb 7, 2023 – 27:27
  • Snap Crackle and Every Little Helps - the language of food advertising
    Jan 31, 2023 – 27:42
  • Grammar Table
    Jan 24, 2023 – 27:31
  • Band names
    Jan 17, 2023 – 27:43
  • Exclamation Marks!!
    Jan 10, 2023 – 27:30
  • Nihal Arthanayake on conversation
    Aug 23, 2022 – 27:33
  • Like
    Aug 16, 2022 – 27:42
  • A Murmuration of Starlings
    Aug 9, 2022 – 27:52
Recent Reviews
  • oldjohnhall
    Love it but
    The other guy from the How Animals Talk episode is an absolute chode Seriously
  • August Consumer
    Excellent
    Thank God for opportunities to hear excellence. Thank you.
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