麻豆官网首页入口

Interpreting for Mum and Dad

Sanmeet Kaur has been interpreting for her parents since the age of five.

• 28 mins

Richard Osman's love of language

Richard Osman talks in depth to Michael Rosen about his broadcasting and writing lives.

• 28 mins

The Life Inside: Philosophy in Prison

Michael Rosen talks to Andy West who teaches philosophy in prisons

• 28 mins

Psychiatrist and Patient

Neuropsychiatrist Anthony David talks to Michael.

• 28 mins

A Load of Nonsense

Michael Rosen talks nonsense literature and made-up words with Noreen Masud.

• 28 mins

Chatbots

Professor of computational linguistics Emily M Bender chats all things bot with Michael

• 28 mins

Women's Words

Dr Jenni Nuttall talks to Michael about the words used by and about women.

• 28 mins

The Language of Fascism

The Language of Fascism

• 28 mins

Learning Yiddish

Michael Rosen with his Yiddish language teacher Tamara Micner.

• 27 mins

Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky

An insight into the world of a simultaneous interpreter.

• 28 mins

Audio description: putting art into words

Audio describer Lonny Evans and trainer Terry James talk about how to describe art.

• 28 mins

The stories behind our names

Michael talks to Sheela Banerjee about the family and cultural histories revealed by names

• 28 mins

Fandom

Michael Bond talks to Michael Rosen about the ways in which fans talk to each other.

• 28 mins

Therapy Speak

Susie Orbach talks to Michael Rosen about the use and misuse of 'therapy speak'.

• 28 mins

Everyday Shakespeare

Are you quoting Shakespeare without even realising?

• 28 mins

Writing Comedy with Isy Suttie

Comedian Isy Suttie on how she writes comedy

• 28 mins

A Life in Lexicography

Lexicographer Grant Barrett on dictionaries.

• 28 mins

Words for Sale!

Dr Pip Thornton and Michael Rosen explore how language has become an online commodity.

• 28 mins

Unequal English

Michael Rosen is joined by Ruanni Tupas to discuss English from around the world.

• 28 mins

Are you different in another language?

Can speaking another language change your behaviour, your decisions, even your morals?

• 28 mins

Family Sayings

Michael shares listeners' stories about words and phrases passed down through families.

• 28 mins

How to Think Like an Anthropologist, with Gillian Tett

Michael Rosen is joined by Gillian Tett, columnist at the Financial Times.

• 28 mins

Football Club Names

Dominic Fifield explains how football clubs got their names.

• 28 mins

Disaster Dialogue

Professor Lucy Easthope explains why language is important in the aftermath of a disaster.

• 28 mins

The Irish Language

What the Irish language tells us about the world

• 28 mins

Language When There Are No Words

Joshua Reno talks about how Charlie, his non verbal-autistic son, communicates with him.

• 28 mins

Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival

In conversation with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival.

• 28 mins

Little Green Men: the secret rules of word order

Michael explores the mysterious rules of word order with linguist Dr Laura Bailey.

• 28 mins

How babies learn language

Professor Julian Pine on how babies learn language.

• 28 mins

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.

• 28 mins