# The Book Club: How to Kill a Language

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Published: 2026-04-29T23:01:00+00:00
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## Resource

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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