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The Book Club: How to Kill a Language

April 29, 2026·41 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Sophia Smith-Galer, talking about her new book How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words. Sophia tells me why languages are vanishing faster than ever before, why it matters, how we can resist it and what her Italian-born nonna gave her.Visit fleetstreetquarter.co.uk to book your tickets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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