BBC World Service

BBC World Service Radio

World Service Radio

Migrated podcast image for: Boston Calling

Boston Calling

Discussion & Talk

Factual

How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

Boston Calling: Loaded Language

Chant1920.jpg

15/08/2015

Loaded Language

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, Loaded Language

Iranian hardliners chant ‘Death to America’ - but these days many Iranians wonder why.

Iranian hardliners have long chanted "Death to America" at Friday prayers and government rallies. But in the wake of a nuclear agreement, are the slogan's days numbered? Then, how a project to translate Henry David Thoreau’s Walden into Farsi became a global cultural exchange. And, are we witnessing the death of "uh"? Um, maybe — and not just in English.

Also, Trevor Noah's South African fans have advice for Americans who find some of his jokes offensive, New York's Metropolitan Opera announces its ‘Otello’ tenor will no longer wear "blackface", and Krussia may be the best Russian rapper in New York - but why isn’t he known back home?

(Photo: Iranian protesters burn an American flag during a rally in Tehran in 2013. Credit: AP)

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Boston Calling

Loaded Language

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service

About BBC World Service