Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing

Ever wondered where all our squiggles and dots of modern punctuation come from? Author of On The Mark Florence Hazrat gives us a witty and fascinating insight into how punctuation began and has evolved through the centuries, continuing to adapt and change as our methods of writin ...  Show more

Michael Rosen talks to security guard George Bass, the author of What The Bouncer Saw: Life on the Front Line of the Security Business. George says words and tone are his riot shield. He shares what he's learned about how to talk and joke people down from anti-social behaviour an ...  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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