As an early waker who doesn’t want to be an early riser — and an NPR addict — I tend to listen to one of the two Boston public radio stations before I get up. So, I’m a loyal fan of some of the shows to don’t get a whole like of prime time play, including the lively sports show “Only a Game” and “Living on Earth,” which offers reporting on the environmental.

And, while I don’t get up and go to church on Sundays — Sorry Sister Mary Mercy — I do often listen to “On Being,” a show that aims to “draw out the intellectual and spiritual content of religion that should nourish our common life, but that is often obscured precisely when religion enters the news.” Host Krista Tippitt has the perfect gentle voice for this topic.

And this morning she offers a conversation with BU professor and “linguistics pioneer” Jean Berko Gleason, who “says language reveals unexpected truths not only about our human relationships with our world, but also our consciousness of ourselves” Check it out on line.