Episode 90 (A Retrospective: 2018-2025)
Join Paul Meier and his past guests for this retrospective of the first eight years of the podcast. Paul will be taking a hiatus and plans t...
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20 of 90 episodesEpisode 89 (Voice Coaching, Sound Design, and Amplification in the Theatre)
For the June 2025 episode, Paul and his guest, voice/dialect coach and IDEA Senior Editor Sarah Nichols, discuss the relationship, or lack t...
Episode 88 (AI and the Human Voice)
The May 2025 episode tackles artificial intelligence, or AI. Paul's guests are speech-to-text specialist Michael McAuliffe and dialect coach...
Episode 87 (Rhoticity: Watch Your R's)
For the April 2025 episode, Paul discusses rhoticity, the use of the letter R in speech. For more information, visit the page associated wit...
Episode 86 (How Playwrights Hear Their Characters’ Voices)
The March 2025 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking" is the first to feature a playwright. Paul Meier discusses how playwrights hear their ch...
Episode 85 (The World of Puppets)
Paul's February 2025 podcast episode is his first to focus on the speech of inanimate objects, specifically puppets. But as you will see fro...
Episode 84 ("Why Animals Talk")
For the January 2025 , Paul and his guest, distinguished Cambridge zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, discuss, in a first for this podcast, the spe...
Episode 83 (“Just How Boring Are You?” Be a Better Podcast Guest)
Renowned singing and voice teachers and authors Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher return to the podcast for December 2024 to discuss Jeremy'...
Episode 82 (American and British Dialects in Popular Song)
Linguist Karen Burgos returns to the podcast for November 2024 to discuss American and British dialects in popular song. She and Paul are jo...
Episode 81 (Voices of the Civil Rights Movement)
Actor, director, and voice/dialect coach Jacqueline Springfield returns to the podcast for October 2024 to discuss voices of the Civil Right...
Episode 80 (Trace That Place)
Podcast regular David Crystal is back on "In a Manner of Speaking" to discuss his new website, TraceThatPlace.com, which allows users to exp...
Episode 79 (Come from Away)
On the August 2024 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking," Paul discusses dialect coaching with IDEA Associate Editor and successful dialect c...
Episode 78 (Transatlantic and Old Movie Dialects)
For the July 2024 podcast, Paul, Barrie Krenik, and Cameron Meier discuss the old Transatlantic dialect of American speech, focusing on its...
Episode 77 (A Unique Path to Film and TV Success)
For the June 2023 podcast, Paul welcomes celebrated Danish-American actor Lukas Hassel, who has forged a unique path to success in film and...
Episode 76 (African-American English)
The May 2024 episode focuses on African-American English, which Paul discusses with American Dialect Society President Patricia Cukor-Avila....
Episode 75 (Loudmouths and the Sound of Silence)
For the April 2024 podcast, Paul explores loudness, or the lack thereof. Just as he examined extremes of pitch and speed in past episodes, P...
Episode 74 (Folk Linguistics)
Welcome to the March 2024 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking," in which Paul discusses folk linguistics with dialectologist Dennis Preston,...
Episode 73 (The American Dialect Society)
The February 2024 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking" is all about the American Dialect Society, which was founded in 1889 to study English...
Episode 72 (The Word: an Illusive Concept)
Paul begins 2024 with a discussion about the fundamental nature of the core topic of this podcast: the word. Specifically, he discusses the...
Episode 71 (The History of Silent Reading)
For the last podcast episode of 2023, Paul talks to Paul Saenger, curator of rare books, emeritus, at Chicago’s Newberry Library, about the...