We started making the podcast during COP26, held in Glasgow. We recorded and published an episode most days of the two-week event. We now publish once a month on political and policy discourse, the language and discourse of current affairs and about urgent issues facing society. Read more here.

Michael Farrelly produces and co-hosts the podcast with Tom Bartlett.

Michael is a former academic, now developing a co-operative organisation for discussing, developing and learning methods of critical discourse analysis (The Discourse Academy)

Tom is a professor at the University of Glasgow.

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We choose topics and guests that we think are important, interesting and that we think need to be heard and better understood. Get in touch if you think there’s something we should cover.

You can find all our past episodes here - there’s an audio player on each episode page from which you can listen through your browser or downtown the episode. You can also subscribe to our podcast RSS feed from our homepage and find us on all the podcast platforms (contact us know if there’s one you use and can’t find us).

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