Can you tell your real individual from your robot agent? In the ultimate game of Bot or Not, would you stake $26m of your own money on it? en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a transcript of the podcast at the blog: …

Can you tell your real individual from your robot agent? In the ultimate game of Bot or Not, would you stake $26m of your own money on it? en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a transcript of the podcast at the blog: …

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 5 of this slowburn mini-series pitches the computational linguists against the forensic linguists in an effort to determine whether either side can work out who wrote Shakespeare. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection,…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 5 of this slowburn mini-series pitches the computational linguists against the forensic linguists in an effort to determine whether either side can work out who wrote Shakespeare. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection,…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 4 of this slowburn mini-series looks at our last two possible alternatives and weighs up the evidence. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credit…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 4 of this slowburn mini-series looks at our last two possible alternatives and weighs up the evidence. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credit…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 3 of this slowburn mini-series looks at our first three possible alternatives and weighs up the evidence. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio cre…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 3 of this slowburn mini-series looks at our first three possible alternatives and weighs up the evidence. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio cre…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 2 explores why we doubt Shakespeare and what happens if we kill him off. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a tran…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 2 explores why we doubt Shakespeare and what happens if we kill him off. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a tran…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 1 of this slowburn mini-series looks at the question, "Who wrote Shakespeare?". en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and…

Did Shakespeare really write, well, Shakespeare? Or is the Swan of Avon a five century old con? Part 1 of this slowburn mini-series looks at the question, "Who wrote Shakespeare?". en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and…

When you have codebreakers like Alan Turing to contend with, how do you come up with a code that even the smartest people alive can't break? This episode tells the story of the Native American codetalkers, starting with the Choctaw codetalkers in WWI. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from …

When you have codebreakers like Alan Turing to contend with, how do you come up with a code that even the smartest people alive can't break? This episode tells the story of the Native American codetalkers, starting with the Choctaw codetalkers in WWI. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from …

Can you make a person confess to a crime they haven't committed? To a crime as serious as murder? What about a whole group of people? This episode tells the story of the disappearances of two men and the series of confessions spun out of thin air afterwards. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysterie…

Can you make a person confess to a crime they haven't committed? To a crime as serious as murder? What about a whole group of people? This episode tells the story of the disappearances of two men and the series of confessions spun out of thin air afterwards. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysterie…

We’re going on holiday for a bit. It’s a vacation before we start Season Two. On this note, what sort of cases, you might ask, will Season Two bring? And what can you listen to, read, or watch, till en clair returns? En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find credi…

THIS IS A VOICE ONLY VERSION OF SEASON 01. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries. You can find credits, links, podcast transcripts, and more about each episode in the Case Notes here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclairPar Dr Claire Hardaker

Part 3 of 3: As war consumes Europe, Alan Turing and Bletchley Park take on the ultimate version of the Enigma mechanical cipher - the naval Triton M4. En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find credits, links, a podcast transcript, and more about this episode in t…

THIS IS A VOICE ONLY VERSION OF SEASON 01. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries. You can find credits, links, podcast transcripts, and more about each episode in the Case Notes here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclairPar Dr Claire Hardaker

Part 2 of 3: We meet the civilians, scientists, and spies whose lives became inextricably tangled up in the Enigma cipher. Jealousy, desperation, genius, greed, loyalty, heartbreak. This one has it all. En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find credits, links, a p…

THIS IS A VOICE ONLY VERSION OF SEASON 01. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries. You can find credits, links, podcast transcripts, and more about each episode in the Case Notes here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclairPar Dr Claire Hardaker

Part 1 of 3: Enigma was one of the most advanced mechanical ciphers of its time. We look back at the history of cryptology to see the ashes from which this cryptographic titan rose. En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find credits, links, a podcast transcript, an…

THIS IS A VOICE ONLY VERSION OF SEASON 01. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries. You can find credits, links, podcast transcripts, and more about each episode in the Case Notes here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclairPar Dr Claire Hardaker

THIS IS A VOICE ONLY VERSION OF SEASON 01. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries. You can find credits, links, podcast transcripts, and more about each episode in the Case Notes here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclairPar Dr Claire Hardaker

Should you be prosecuted for barking? Or asking about a horse's sexuality? What about using a racist slur? This episode looks at the turbulent history of §5 of the Public Order Act 1986, and its chaotic journey from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the inner-city streets of Newcastle. En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detec…