Did you know there are 7000 languages in the world -- but within the next 80 years, nearly half of those could disappear…. silencing entire cultures along with them. With languages around the world rapidly ceasing to exist, how can we save them from dying - and is it worth the effort?

Guests:

David Nathan

Linguist

Colin West

Gaelic speaker

Carrie Gillon

Co-host of The Vocal Fries Podcast

LOCATOR: ARIZONA

Daniel Borge Udell

Co-founder of Wikitongues

LOCATOR: NEW YORK

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#Langauges, #Dyinglanguages, #lingustics

It's a refrain as familiar as a Christmas carol: excessive spending at this time of year has gone too far. The true meaning of Christmas has been forgotten. But is the tide of tinsel, turning?

#christmas #newyear #christmasshopping

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

More people are becoming resistant to life-saving anti-biotics.

Medical researchers say there’s an urgent need to stem the rise, warning of steep economic and human costs.

Guests:

Dr Lena Ciric

Antibiotic Resistance Scientist, UCL

Dr Elisabeth Adams

Founder, Aquarius Population Health

Clare Chandler

Director, Antimicrobial Resistance Centre

Tagbo Niepa

Professor of Bioengineering

Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#DrugResistance #Antibiotics #Superbugs #Medicine

Another big name that is disappearing from the UK retail sector is baby clothes store Mothercare. Other well-known brands have already shut up shop and many more are struggling to survive. It’s having a drastic effect on town centres - so how do we save the high street?

Prem Sikka

Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex

Karl McKeever

Retail Expert, Visual Thinking Group

James Singer

Retail Space Planner

Elias Jahshan

Editor, Retail Gazette

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#Deathofthehighst #retailapocalypse #retailers

It’s the 100-year-anniversary since a landmark UK Sex Disqualification Act went into effect, to free women in the workplace. It paved the way for other laws that lifted restrictions on training and employment of women. But where do we stand today?

Emma Sinclair

CEO, EnterpriseAlumni

Nia John

Young Women’s Trust

Serena Laidley

Women's Equality Party member

Allyson Zimmermann

Executive Director, Catalyst

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#womenworking #womencareers #womenworkplace

The concept of genetically-modified children might sound unacceptable to some - but it could make a crucial difference to parents at risk of passing on life threatening conditions. ‘Designer babies’ might not be as far away as we think.

Guests:

Dr Kalpana Surendranath

Molecular Cell Biologist

Sarah Chan

Bioethicist, University of Edinburgh

Dr Kevin Smith

Bioethicist, Abertay University in Scotland

Natalie Kofler

Founding Director of Editing Nature

Roundtable is a discussion program with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#DesignerBabies #DNA #genes

It may not be about boots on the ground - but the UK is at war every day, according to its top military officer. Constant cyber-attacks are coming from Russia and elsewhere he says. So are we now in an era of constant conflict?

GUESTS:

Peter Roberts

Director of Military Sciences, RUSI Thinktank

Ofer Fridman

Author of Russian ‘Hybrid Warfare’

John Berryman

Birkbeck University

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

At 16 there are many ways you are seen as an adult in the eyes of the law and society. But here in the UK and many other countries, voting is not one of them. And there’s an increasingly vocal campaign to change that.

Guest:

Mete Coban

Chief Executive, My Life My Say

Kaat Smets

Lecturer in Politics, Royal Holloway University

Thomas Loughran

Voting Age Researcher, University of Huddersfield

Paul Schmidt

Austrian Society for European Politics

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#election, #votingage, # youngpeople

Are you all about work work work? For many people their job inspires devotion and effort like nothing else. There’s a name for it. Workism. Has it become a new religion?

Noel McDermott

Psychotherapist

Nada Kakabadse

Henley Business School

Jonan Boto

Founder, Mama Kari Presents

Manish Thakor

Recovering Workaholic

LOCATOR: PORTLAND, US

Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analysing every point of view. From fierce debate to reflective thinking, Roundtable discussions offer a different perspective on the issues that matter to you. Watch it every weekday at 15:30 GMT on TRT World.

#workism #workaholism #lifespupose

Apple is being criticised for taking down an app being used by Hong Kong protesters. Putting profits above human rights is wrong, was how one top US politician put it. But the question remains. Do tech companies actually have any kind of duty to protect our rights? Welcome to Roundtable.

#hongkong #appleban #humanrights