188. Lipread
28 January - 42 mins
Podcast Series
The Allusionist
Lipreading has been in the news this month, thanks to gossip-stoking mouth movements at the Golden Globes that the amateur lipreaders of The Internet rushed to interpret. But lipreading tutor Helen Barrow describes how reading lips really works - the confusable consonants, the importance of context and body language - and gossip maven Lainey Lui explains why these regularly occurring lipreading gossip stories are unworthy of a second or even first glance.
Get the transcript of this episode, and find links to the guests and more information about the topics therein, at theallusionist.org/lipread.
Content note: this episode contains three Category B swears.
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