How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One)

How To Kill A Language, with Sophia Smith Galer (Part One)

What do we lose when a language dies? Roughly 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. Over half of them are expected to vanish in the next century – along with the wealth of information they contain, the family ties they represent, and the psychological benefits they confer. In May 2026 journalist Sophia Smith Galer joined us live to explore how this mass extinction event is one of the most urgent cultural emergencies we’re facing today. Drawing on her globe-spanning investigation, How to Kill a Language, Smith Galer shed light on linguicide, its root causes, and what we lose when a language dies. From Ghana to Greece, Ukraine to Ecuador, her research ultimately led her back home: to Italy, where piaśintein, the Gallo-Italian language of her grandparents, is on the brink of vanishing forever. Smith Galer also discussed the communities bringing their languages back, from Kurdish activists in Iran to Karuk campaigners in the forests of California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part Two)

Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part Two)

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Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part One)

Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part One)

Olivia Laing is known as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Their work is renowned for its capacity to make abstract ideas feel precise, intimate, and beautifully thought t...

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How Did World War II Create Modern Asia? With Professor Hans van de Ven

How Did World War II Create Modern Asia? With Professor Hans van de Ven

Is our history of World War II missing its most important chapter? For many in the West, the story of the Second World War is told through D-Day, the Blitz and the liberation of Europe. Yet some of t...

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An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part Two)

An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part Two)

Maggie O’Farrell is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Hamnet, a breathtaking fictional retelling of the death of Shakespeare’s only son from the bubonic plague. This much-loved novel ...

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An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part One)

An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part One)

Maggie O’Farrell is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Hamnet, a breathtaking fictional retelling of the death of Shakespeare’s only son from the bubonic plague. This much-loved novel ...

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Can We Make the Internet Safe for Children? With Baroness Beeban Kidron

Can We Make the Internet Safe for Children? With Baroness Beeban Kidron

Filmmaker and activist Baroness Beeban Kidron has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people for over a decade, and has played a central role in establishing standards for online safety a...

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Hotel with History | Copacabana Palace, Rio De Janeiro

Hotel with History | Copacabana Palace, Rio De Janeiro

This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of Perowne International⁠. Picture being on a sweep of white sand where Rio meets the Atlantic. Through revolut...

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Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part Two)

Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part Two)

Andrew Ross Sorkin began his career at the forefront of Wall Street news, reporting extensively for The New York Times on the financial crash of 2008 and its chaotic aftermath. His expert journalism h...

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