Word of Mouth Episodes Episode guide
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18/01/2011
Michael Rosen explores the world of language and communication.
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11/01/2011
Michael Rosen celebrates the life of the microphone.
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04/01/2011
Michael Rosen lends an ear to the last fifty years of the song-lyric.
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28/12/2010
Michael Rosen considers the language of travel and tourism.
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21/12/2010
Michael Rosen explores the first history of English exhibition at the British Library.
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Voices for Posterity
Chris Ledgard talks to people who are preserving their voices for posterity.
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31/08/2010
Chris Ledgard meets some of those trying to stop the death of languages around the world.
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24/08/2010
Chris Ledgard investigates the search for translators for London 2012.
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Body Language
Chris Ledgard considers the importance of body language in communication.
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10/08/2010
Word of Mouth explores the value of dumbing down.
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03/08/2010
Chris Ledgard considers the rise in popularity of storytelling at the Festival at the Edge
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27/07/2010
Chris Ledgard investigates the world of the inner monologue.
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20/07/2010
Exploring the different ways in which deaf people communicate. First of new series.
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17/05/2010
Michael Rosen explores the language of football.
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04/05/2010
Michael Rosen looks at the words used to describe flavour and taste.
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27/04/2010
Michael Rosen on the language used by and about disabled people.
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20/04/2010
Looking at the Chinese and English languages, and the meeting point between the two.
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13/04/2010
Chris Ledgard goes to Soho to meet the people that work in voiceoverland.
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06/04/2010
Michael Rosen investigates the language of the natural world.
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30/03/2010
Why do people always want to "improve" your English? Michael Rosen investigates.
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23/03/2010
Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words, language and the way we speak
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12/01/2010
Michael Rosen investigates lying. Does our voice change when we are trying to deceive?
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05/01/2010
Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words, language and the way we speak
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29/12/2009
From school classrooms to sports grounds, Michael Rosen investigates silence.
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22/12/2009
Michael Rosen takes apart some jokes to try to find out why they're funny.
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15/12/2009
Michael Rosen and critics test George Orwell's rules for writing about politics.
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08/12/2009
Michael Rosen meets the consultants who will teach you how to speak more clearly.
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01/12/2009
Michael Rosen asks whether English is one language or a thousand.
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24/11/2009
Michael Rosen investigates coded language.
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17/11/2009
Michael Rosen and playwright David Edgar on the rise and fall of the communist 'dialect'.