Voices
Y Wladfa is a unique Welsh-language settlement in Patagonia, Argentina. Dr Walter Ariel Brooks traces how the language has evolved in Argentina since its arrival in 1865.
Tony Calderbank has been translating from Arabic to English since 1992. He shares some of the knowledge he has acquired along the way.
Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival Wesley Enoch is an Indigenous Australian whose language, Jandai, is vanishing. He talks about how to keep a language alive.
Bahamian artist Sonia Farmer and Scottish artist Graham Fagen created two very different artworks for an exhibition on the historical significance of slavery.
Christine De Luca is a poet who writes in Shetlandic, which is spoken in the Shetland Isles off the north coast of Scotland. We asked her about the dialect.
What happens to people's memories when their town disappears? We asked Filip Springer, author of 'History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town'.
Writer and translator Robert Ferguson, who has lived in Norway for 30 years, takes us on a tour of Scandinavia's musical heritage.
Eir Nolsøe, a radio journalist from the Faroe Islands, tells us about her home country, on the occasion of this year's Nordic Matters festival at the Southbank Centre in London.
Being an English language assistant gives you insight into a new culture. Laura Leichtfried, a language assistant in Alsace, France, tells us about the region.
The British Council’s John Dubber examines how a figure famous as a war leader was also a master of soft power, or influence by attraction rather than coercion.