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This episode includes highlights from some of the best episodes of 2024, which include:

• my interview with Pulitzer-winning reporter and memoirist Rick Bragg;
• a study of two letters written a century apart and their dialect similarities;
• what I learned about an ancient Pictish language during a visit to Ireland;
• my interview with co-researcher Will Isom and the story of a mysterious burial ground;
• the fight to save the Cherokee language from extinction
• and the one and only Barbara Kingsolver, author of the Pulitzer-winning book Demon Copperhead.

I hope you enjoy Part I of 2024's highlights!

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