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Talk the Talk

Daniel Midgley

Linguists and language experts dissect words, language evolution, and linguistic illusions with hosts and guests.

Why we picked this

We picked Talk the Talk for its insistence that language is political. The hosts treat policy, identity, and power as the core material of linguistics, not side notes. Where other language shows stay phonetic, this one stays structural—examining how governments ban scripts to erase peoples, how citizenship tests function as gatekeeping, and how revived writing systems become acts of resistance. The hosts are sharp, opinionated, and unafraid to name ethnostate nationalism when they see it. A feed for listeners who want their grammar with a side of politics.

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Recent episodes

139: Magpie Syntax (with Stephanie Mason)

Jun 9, 20262h 47m

138: Pop-Up Gaeltacht (live with Laura Pakenham and friends)

May 12, 20261h 32m

137: Are Trees Real? (with Yngwie Nielsen and Morten Christiansen)

May 1, 20261h 1m

136: These Languages Are Anchors (with Mary Walworth)

Apr 25, 20262h 10m

135: Linguistic Illusions (with Dan Parker)

Apr 3, 20262h 8m

134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

Mar 13, 20262h 21m

133: Why We Talk Funny (with Valerie Fridland)

Feb 26, 20262h 27m

132: WotY 2025, the Final Word (with Kelly Wright)

Feb 17, 20261h 29m

131: Words of the Week of the Year 2025 (live with friends)

Dec 20, 20251h 31m

130: Back to the FTR (with Séan Roberts, Cole Robertson, and Annemarie Verkerk)

Dec 6, 20252h 53m

129: They Started It: Children and Language Evolution (with Madeleine Beekman)

Nov 19, 20252h 25m

128: Across the Universe (with Natan Last)

Oct 22, 20252h 7m

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