Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them
Radio 4,·304 episodes
Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright look into how new commercial brand names are invented.
06 Oct 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and Professor John Mullan talk romance, Romantic poets and romanticism.
29 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen examines the differences between reading print books and reading eBooks.
22 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at how numbers are understood - and misunderstood.
15 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss non-verbal communication with Prof Steven Connor.
26 May 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and guests perform poems, songs and stories about food.
19 May 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss the role of young women in language innovation.
12 May 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright on colour words, how they vary and how they have changed.
05 May 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at the names people give to family relationships.
28 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen asks Julian Barratt and Steve Oram about creating a language without words.
21 Apr 2015,·28 mins
What is a pedant, and where does pedantry come from? Michael Rosen talks to Oliver Kamm.
14 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen on the evocative words used to describe features of the British landscape.
07 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Tanya Byron and Michael Rosen discuss the language parents use to talk to their children.
27 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen on the use of language analysis to judge asylum seekers' country of origin.
20 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen talk in depth about language and writing.
13 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen looks ahead, with the help of linguists Bas Aarts and Laura Wright.
06 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Michael Rosen finds out why we laugh and why we cry, with neuroscientist Sophie Scott.
30 Dec 2014,·28 mins
Michael Rosen talks to Oxfam's media officer on how we should speak about Ebola.
23 Dec 2014,·28 mins
Michael Rosen on the first sounds and words that babies learn.
16 Dec 2014,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard host a discussion on speaking and listening skills and the English GCSE.
02 Sep 2014,·28 mins
Arthur Bostrom examines the origins, colourful history and new era of the double entendre.
26 Aug 2014,·28 mins
The writer Graham Joyce with a personal take on the ways in which we talk about cancer.
19 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Are we different online than in real life? Gemma Cairney asks Nick Grimshaw and friends.
12 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard explores the impact of the telephone.
05 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard explores Orwell's dystopian vision of the future of language - Newspeak.
29 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard uncorks the subject of messages in a bottle.
22 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard investigates three situations where precise use of words is crucial.
15 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Michael Rosen and guests debate the language of food, from Oliver's 'more' to cannibalism.
13 May 2014,·28 mins
Words can be abusive, cruel and cause offence. Which is worse: online or face-to-face?
06 May 2014,·28 mins
Michael Rosen asks what time is and explores the words we use to talk about it.
29 Apr 2014,·28 mins
