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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Extreme Language
- Broadcast
- 2025 (7 mins)
This film explores the power of language and how psychological techniques can be used to influence and even push people towards views that some might see as extreme. Investigative documentary maker Zara...
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Julia Donaldson: A life in language
- Broadcast
- 2025 (28 mins)
Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo and many other beloved children’s books, tells Michael Rosen about her own writing, reading, speaking and listening. Her childhood experiences were a big influence,...