The Superlinguists: Monolingual societies

The Superlinguists: Monolingual societies

Simon Calder meets speakers of indigenous languages (like Welsh in Britain), of dialects (like Moselfrankish in Germany) and vernaculars (like African-American Vernacular English, in the US). These speakers all use the mainstream language every day, but code-switch to their variants, questioning whether their societies are monolingual. Is there even something sinister and oppressive to the idea of monolingualism?

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Nuclear tensions in the Middle East

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The Kremlin’s reporter

The Kremlin’s reporter

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Conversations from a year in Gaza and Israel

Conversations from a year in Gaza and Israel

We look back over the past 12 months of the conflict between Israel and Hamas through the conversations we have recorded. It is almost two years since Hamas militants attacked Israel – killing 1200 pe...

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Orthodoxy or death: The fight for Mount Athos

Orthodoxy or death: The fight for Mount Athos

**This programme contains discriminatory language** On Greece’s Mount Athos, the most holy site in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, lies a rift in the faith. For more than 20 years, a banned monastery h...

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Powering Nigeria

Powering Nigeria

According to the World Bank, more than 80 million people in Nigeria still lack access to electricity, making it the country with the largest energy access deficit in the world. But even among those co...

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Deepfaking disability

Deepfaking disability

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Haitians living in fear in the Dominican Republic

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Emilia Wickstead: London Fashion Week

Emilia Wickstead: London Fashion Week

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