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Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
Jane Austen begins her journey from imaginative teenager to brilliant author who redefined literature. This is the tale of a young woman’s rise from obscurity, as she discovers her artistic voice and...
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
Episode Two
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
At 27, Jane Austen stands at a crossroads. Having rejected a marriage proposal that could secure her financial stability, she chooses to dedicate her life to writing. It is a bold and courageous decision...
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
Episode Three
- Broadcast
- 2025 (58 mins)
In 1814 Austen, aged 38, has had three novels published, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. These works have earned her a modest income that hints at the promise of...
Word of Mouth
Speech Difficulties
- Broadcast
- 2025 (28 mins)
Michael Rosen asks what happens to people’s sense of identity and social being when speaking becomes hard. Jonathan Cole has interviewed people with conditions such as cerebral palsy, vocal cord palsy,...
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Future of Reading
- Broadcast
- 2025 (7 mins)
On International Literacy Day, with reading in decline and attention spans shrinking, we explored what the future of reading could look like and found out whether digital tech like speed reading apps and...
Word of Mouth
Keeping My Family’s Language Alive
- Broadcast
- 2025 (27 mins)
Michael Rosen talks to Samantha Ellis, author of Chopping Onions on My Heart, about her efforts to keep alive the language of her parents: Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. Samantha grew up in London hearing her parents...
Word of Mouth
How to Persuade a Courtroom
- Broadcast
- 2025 (28 mins)
Michael Rosen talks to criminal defence barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind about the legal language of Crown Court cases in England and Wales. From the grandeur of the courtroom and stock phrases like "with...
Word of Mouth
Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words
- Broadcast
- 2025 (27 mins)
Michael Rosen is joined by linguist Dr Catherine Laing to discuss onomatopoeia and other words that sound like their meanings. Not just words for sounds like ‘crash’ and ‘bang’, or words for animal...
Word of Mouth
The Language of the Manosphere
- Broadcast
- 2025 (27 mins)
The ‘Manosphere’ is a group of loosely affiliated mainly young males who have developed a specialised vocabulary to discuss women online in a negative and hostile way. Some of the vocabulary is a...
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It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
- Broadcast
- 2025 (28 mins)
Michael Rosen on the linguistic comfort food of clichés, pragmatics and how we use language to connect us beyond the actual words used. Derek Bousfield explains how words do more than carry meaning: context...