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This episode explores writing in English, or any language, as a means of therapy. By this I mean writing freely to express emotions and feelings, some of which can be difficult to recall or remember. I speak to Princess R Lakshman from Sydney, Australia about her work supporting women, children and men to recover from trauma, often caused by dislocation - having to leave one's home country because...

In this episode I interview John Taylor, sports fanatic from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England about idioms in British English Language which have been taken from sports terminology. Many people use phrases such as 'to get on the front foot' without realising where that idiom originated. Boxing is surprisingly rich in having generated such idioms that are now used in regular speech such as, 'down...

John Scott Lawton, English Language Coach, interviews Miriam Barnaby, Slovak poet, English Language Teacher and writer about what inspires her to create poetry in English. Is all poetry meant to be shared with others? Will poetry see a resurgence given the dramatic and beautiful oratory of Amanda Gorman's, ' The Hill We Climb ' at President Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony? Was that poetry, prose...