Ferdinand de Saussure likened language to a collective treasure that every member of the linguistic community can draw from without its stores diminis...

Happy New Year! The end of the year is a great time for reflection. Why not reflect upon the meaning of life? Or, even better, why not reflect on why ...

‘It’s easy to forget,’ said Sir David Attenborough in his address to COP26, ‘that ultimately the emergency climate comes down to a single number — the...

In this episode we’re going to address three questions. What’s a word? What did it feel like when life first emerged on the Earth? When’s the first (o...

When did you learn that the earth travels round the sun and not the other way round? And when you talk to yourself, which one of the dialoguing charac...

Is an enlightened society a society without language? This episode explores what starlings can teach us about selves, the space that surrounds the exp...

Have you ever repeated a word over and over again to yourself to experience the dissolution of its meaning? What if you were to do that with the word ...

In this episode we explore the idea that intimacy is embedded in the structure of language, and that this same intimacy is embedded in the structure o...

Here’s how to get fascinated by language if you’re not already. This might even feel a little bit like a transcendent, or mystical experience. Find a ...

What we think about language reveals what we think about society. Will changing our ideas about language help us create a more welcoming world? In thi...