A new episode of The Conversation's Curious Kids podcast tackles the question of how the world's first language was formed, prompted by nine-year-old Eva after she noticed that depictions of Stone Age people speaking broken English seemed implausible. Host Eloise Stevens sat down with anthropologist April Nowell to explore what researchers understand about the prehistoric origins of human language. The episode is part of a series in which children pose questions to leading academics, highlighting growing public interest in making complex scientific topics accessible to younger audiences.