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Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation.

An artist’s mural of George Floyd becomes an emblem of a renewed movement for racial equality. A documentary film injects fuel into a popular mobilization to oust a Central American dictator. Freedom songs course through the American civil rights movement. When artists and organizers combine forces, new forms of political mobilization follow—which shape lasting social change. And yet few people appreciate how much deliberate strategy often propels this vital social change work.

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Publishing is a massive, complicated industry. It began in English with William Caxton in the fifteenth century, and it’s still evolving. Join Kate Macdonald, the publisher at Handheld Press and a visiting research fellow at Oxford Brookes University, in conversation with weekly guests to break down the mysteries of publishing as a business, as a trade, as an art, and as a culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.