Common Ground: Language

In Common Ground, Evan Davis travels around the UK to find out how divided we really are. The series asks whether our society is really becoming increasingly polarised and what people across the country are doing to build stronger communities and connections. In this episode, Evan travels to Leicester to explore language and how it interacts with integration of immigrant communities. Is the number of people who don’t speak English increasing or decreasing? What is stopping people from learning? And how important is a common language for the way communities integrate? He’ll also be joined by an expert panel to discuss the role of language in how well we live together: Author and campaigner, Dame Jasvinder Sanghera and Jacqui Broadhead, director of the Global Exchange on Migration at Oxford University.

Presenter: Evan Davis
Producers: Scott Adam, Emma Close and Katie Haseldine
Editor: Alicia Queiro
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound mix: Neil Churchill