Celebrating Language on Radio 4
Michael Rosen looks ahead, with the help of linguists Bas Aarts and Laura Wright.
When language lacks idioms or ambiguity, intimate moments can become oddly clinical.
Even the mildest sounding conlang has a hint of megolomania...
Arika Okrent tells us about how learning Lojban changed her thought habits.
Neil MacGregor examines how Johannes Gutenberg's inventions transformed our world.
Aleks Krotoski asks if language is a technology and how it has changed in the digital age.
Can the numerous indigenous languages survive in a rapidly changing 21st-century Myanmar?
Linguist Mark Turin tracks down endangered languages. In this programme, he is in Bhutan.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Lindsay Johns says language is power, and makes the case for speaking English properly.
Stephen Fry finds the subject of plain English can get complicated.
Artist Tacita Dean travels to UNESCO on a mission to save photochemical film.
Chimps communicate but, asks Michael Rosen, do their utterances mean they use language?
Linguist Mark Turin goes in search of Nepal's endangered languages.
Llinguist Dr Mark Turin explores South Africa's eleven official languages.
Mark Turin meets the linguists who track and preserve the languages of the Big Apple.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy.
