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Steven Pinker on Language
Steven Pinker on Language
Professor Steven Pinker joins Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright in the studio for a wide-ranging talk about his love of,... Read more
5 Apr 2016
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Small Talk
Small Talk
Pointless chit chat or vital social lubricant? Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk small talk with psychotherapist an... Read more
27 Sep 2016
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Michael Rosen explores the origins of English in the Anglo-Saxon world. Ancient riddles, poems and a multi-cultural Bri... Read more
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Michael Rosen talks in depth about dyslexia: what it is, how to understand it and useful advice for parents and teachers... Read more
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Reading: The Science and the Pleasure
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As part of the BBC LovetoRead campaign, Michael Rosen talks about his first experience in reading, with Dr Laura Wright,... Read more
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Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright guide us through the top 20 words in English. Not the best or most popular (that would... Read more
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Lost Words and Secret Connections
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Have you ever wondered why there's no word for that universal affliction of early morning worry & wakefulness? Or ho... Read more
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Michael Rosen talks to Eddy Canfor-Dumas and Peter Osborn about how improving our dialogue is good for everything, from ... Read more
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Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements
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Michael Rosen and art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon take a tour through the naming of art movements. Surrealism, Impression... Read more
17 May 2016
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Ranked #12
Stephen Fry and Michael Rosen talk language
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Stephen Fry talks to presenter Michael Rosen about their mutual obsession with language: the particular joys they both f... Read more
11 Sep 2018
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Pet or Pest? The revealing words we use about animals, and dog names
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Michael Rosen and Laura Wright on the language we use to talk about animals - and the names we give our dogs. Do the wor... Read more
7 Feb 2017
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Punctuation
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Michael Rosen talks to Keith Houston about punctuation symbols and how they came to exist. Keith is the author of Shady ... Read more
24 May 2016
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Snuck and Sung: Irregular Verbs
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Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore irregular verbs with Dr Marcelle Cole, and a contribution from Steven Pinker.W... Read more
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The most powerful word
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Michael Rosen explores the strange history of 'The', the most influential word in English. It's used more than twice as ... Read more
17 Jul 2019
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Naming Emotions
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Michael Rosen talks to Dr Tiffany Watt Smith about the words we use to try and describe our emotions, and what that can ... Read more
24 Apr 2018
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Shop Names
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Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at the history behind and witty wordplay used in shop names, with guest Greg Rowland... Read more
22 May 2018
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Haggard Hawks
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Why do we 'let the cat out of the bag' or 'go the whole nine yards'? What is a hackle and why might it be raised? What d... Read more
20 Feb 2018
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The First Language
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Michael Rosen asks what the earliest language was and how it evolved. Michael joins linguist Dr Laura Wright on a jour... Read more
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