Doublespeaking

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A podcast exploring how simple language has been subverted and repurposed to influence our thinking and change the way we talk - and listen.

Bridget Conor


    • Mar 27, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 17m AVG DURATION
    • 6 EPISODES


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    Episode Six: Birth

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2017 17:17


    Birth. Creation. Labour. It's a heady mix! Today I'm in conversation with Sara de Benedictis. Sara is about to begin a lectureship in media and communications at Brunel University and in this episode we discuss birth, live-tweeting and One Born Every Minute. Join us for the final episode in the first season of Doublespeaking.

    Episode Five: Sharing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2017 18:19


    Sharing is caring. Sharing is pure, virtuous, selfless. So does all this apply in the new and wonderous sharing economy in which we're all now supposed to participate? Today I discuss the word sharing with Dr Zeena Feldman, lecturer in Digital Humanities at King's College London.

    Episode Four: Entrepreneur

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2017 19:33


    Everyone's an entrepreneur these days right? If not a titan of business then a titan of our lives, our jobs, our own bodies? Today I discuss the word entrepreneur with Christina Scharff, senior lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London. We discuss brands, injuries and oh yes, power suits.

    Episode Three: Talent

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2017 17:54


    Everybody's got talent right? Every nation, every person, every person's dog? Today I chat with Natalie Wreyford, research fellow from the University of Southampton about the word talent and it's slippery, magical power.

    Episode Two: Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2017 17:55


    Work, work, work; such a simple yet powerful refrain. Today I talk to Jamie Hakim from the University of East Anglia about work, bodies and austerity. Oh, and Rihanna and Britney.

    Episode One: Clean

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017 16:26


    'Clean' eating now has a bad rap but what does it even mean anyway? Today I talk with Rachel O’Neill, research fellow at the University of York about rainbow bowls, Deliciously Ella and everything that clean is not.

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