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Radio 4,23 Dec 2014,28 mins

Ebola: How should we talk about it?

Word of Mouth

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Michael Rosen talks to Oxfam's media officer on Ebola, Ian Bray, about the language we use about the disease, both in this country and in Liberia, where he's been based. Michael also asks linguists Louise Sylvester and Laura Wright about the words we've used though history to describe disease and plague, and what they tell us about changing attitudes to sickness. Producer Beth O'Dea.

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