Wodcast

Into the Words

Every conversation begins with a single word.Wodcast (Word Of the Day, cast) is a fortnightly video podcast hosted by Benjamin Aston and Mabel Evans. Each episode opens with a word of the day, and every guest brings a word of their own. We approach the word slowly until it shows us how much it holds; about love, grief, freedom, belonging, faith, joy, and what it means to be human.Our guests are writers, poets, musicians, scientists and activists. Season one welcomed Stephen Fry, Sir Tim Rice, Elif Shafak, Waad Al-Kateab, Nick Mulvey, Hak Baker, David Larbi, Professor David Nutt...

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Wodcast

Episodes (13)

Wed Nov 4th E10 - Professor Sarah Ogilvie | The Secret Life of Words
Oct 21st What Does It Mean to Be Human? | Season One Bonus Episode
Oct 7th E9 - Stephen Fry | There Is No Perfect Word

Wodcast

Nov 4, 2026
59½ minutes
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Who really wrote the dictionary? And what happens to a word when the last person who speaks it is gone? We open season two with Sarah Ogilvie, Professor of Language and Lexicography at the University of Oxford, former editor on the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The Dictionary People. Sarah gave our season one guests their word of the season, human, so we begin with her reflections on their answers. She also explains why she chose that word for this moment: to ask what makes us human now that a machine is learning to talk. <...

Wodcast

E10 - Professor Sarah Ogilvie | The Secret Life of Words

Into the Words

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