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Roald Dahl's Language

Michael Rosen on a new Roald Dahl dictionary collecting the amazing words he invented.

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Snuck and Sung: Irregular Verbs

Michael Rosen explores the verbs that are called irregular, and how they came to be.

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Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements

Michael Rosen and Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements and what it tells us.

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Punctuation

Michael Rosen talks to Keith Houston about punctuation symbols and how they came to exist.

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Break Ups and Brexit

The language of making and breaking relationships.

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Lost Words and Secret Connections

Michael Rosen on discovering lost words and finding hidden linguistic connections.

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Directions: North South East and West

Michael Rosen uncovers how people talk and think about directions in different languages.

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Small Talk

Michael Rosen talks to psychotherapist Philippa Perry about the importance of small talk.

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Snotrils and Jumpolines: Kids' Invented Words

Michael Rosen on the creative use and misuse of language by children.

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Reading: The Science and the Pleasure

成人快手 LovetoRead campaign: Michael Rosen on the pleasure of and the science behind reading.

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Susie Dent on Language

Michael Rosen talks to Countdown's Susie Dent about her love of words and language.

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Words Roadshow in Birmingham

Michael Rosen discusses interesting family words and phrases with listeners in Birmingham.

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Pet or Pest? The revealing words we use about animals, and dog names

Michael Rosen on the language we use to talk about animals - and the names we give dogs.

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Intonation: The Music of Speaking

Michael Rosen explores the tunes we sing when we are speaking, without even realising it.

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Emoji: The Future of Language?

Is emoji really the world's fastest-growing language? Michael Rosen finds out.

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Like, Totally Awesome: The Americanisation of English

Michael Rosen on the Americanisation of English, with Lynne Murphy and Matthew Engel.

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Frenchified: The Influence of French on English

Michael Rosen and Laura Wright find out how much of English comes from French roots.

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How Countries Got Their Names

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright find out how countries got their names.

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Jacqueline Wilson talks to Michael Rosen about language

Tracy Beaker author Jacqueline Wilson talks to Michael Rosen about her love of language.

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Cucks, snowflakes and virtue signalling: the new US political lexicon

Michael Rosen asks George Lakoff about the new political words coming out of the US now.

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The Postbag Edition

Michael Rosen answers listeners' language queries from the Word of Mouth inbox and postbag

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Game On: The Language of Video Games

Michael Rosen and Laura Wright find out how video games influence language.

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David Walliams on writing for children

David Walliams talks to Michael Rosen about writing children's books.

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Eat My Words: How to Describe Food Flavours

Michael Rosen asks Andi Oliver and Niki Segnit how they describe the flavours of food.

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Malorie Blackman on Language

Malorie Blackman, author of Noughts and Crosses, talks in depth to Michael Rosen.

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Are we all speaking football?

Lifelong Arsenal supporter Michael Rosen talks football cliches with Adam Hurrey.

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Autism and Communication

Michael Rosen finds out what can be learnt about communication from people with autism.

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Wild Words

Robert Macfarlane tells Michael Rosen about his 'word-hoard' of endangered nature words.

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Language and Our Genes with Dr Steve Jones

Michael Rosen talks to Steve Jones about language and our genes.

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Pub Names

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explain how pubs got their names.

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