Communication Lab

Homonyms are words that are pronounced or spelt in the same way but have different meanings – there and their, for example. This ten-question quiz will test you on some of the most commonly confused homonyms. How well do you know your allusions from your illusions and your pails from your pales? After you’ve answered [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts Click the icon above to hear this interview (36 minutes) Our guest in this special episode of Communication Lab is Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at the age of 19 and went on to become global marketing director of American Apparel while still [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 35 minutes How do you approach new business in an era when cold calls rarely reach decision-makers and everyone’s on the guard against spam? Guest Bryan Kreuzberger, the founder of Breakthrough Email, shares his formula for writing an email that the recipient will both open [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 55 minutes Fed up with email? Learn how to ditch it altogether from special guest Luis Suarez.  He relies almost exclusively on social media for business communication, despite having a senior role in IBM and living in the Canary Islands. Plus: soon you really will [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 32 minutes Listen now to the latest programme, featuring linguistics expert Dr Lynne Murphy talking about the differences between UK and US English. Further reading Hear something you want to know more about? Here are some useful links. Check out Lynne’s excellent blog Separated by [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 40 minutes Listen now to the latest programme, featuring communications expert Sharí Alexander: how to get what you want every time you speak. Further reading If you’d like to know more about any of the topics discussed, try these links. Here are the BBC’s article [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 31 minutes In this podcast, communication strategist David Levin joins Rob Ashton and Andy White to discuss strategies for approaching difficult conversations in the workplace. Further reading Did something in particular catch your interest? Here are some links to what we talked about. Here’s Ben [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 32 minutes Rob Ashton and Andy White discuss the secret life of pronouns, proofreading tips and why the Freedom of Information Act may have taken all the excitement out of government communications. Further reading Hear something you want to know more about? Here are some [...]

Subscribe via RSS / iTunes | Download | All podcasts 34 minutes In this series of lively podcasts, Emphasis CEO and former scientist Rob Ashton puts language under the microscope, over a Bunsen burner and quite possibly into one of those things that looks like a high-tech salad spinner. Along with developer Andy White and [...]