Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing

Michael Rosen talks to anthropologist Jamie Tehrani about how fairy tales travel the world, ever changing and evolving. He’s traced their transmission across oral traditions: the kinds of plots, characters and motifs that endure. From the Iranian Prince Zāl to Little Red Riding H ...  Show more

Michael Rosen on the words used to describe the qualities of smells in different languages. Asifa Majid is Professor of Cognitive Science at Oxford and her research has found that some do it much better than others. She puts Michael to the test to see how English stacks up. Produ ...  Show more

We discuss language that gets used for dating online and new language that is emerging. 

LOVE & ROMANCE – Laurie Taylor unpacks different conceptions of love. He’s joined by Raksha Pande, Senior Lecturer in Social Geography at Newcastle University, whose latest research explores arranged marriages amongst people in the British-Indian diaspora. She finds that they hav ...  Show more

What the heck is ghosting, benching and breadcrumbing when it comes to dating?  How do you know if you've been ghosted, benched or breadcrumbed?  Dating/relationship expert Lucia explains what these new dating terms mean and how to handle each situation.

podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat: spiralling on the risk of vulnerability, compassion and the internet, shame and rejection.✷

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