Where did Akbar the Great get the idea for the experiment from? Given that he didn't have access to Herodotus, this episode looks at precedents in Ancient Indian and Medieval Islamic thought, before moving on to how questions of language acquisition and the origin of language developed since Akbar's time, bringing in a 'Wild Boy' from the South of France, several people claiming to have had languages revealed to them by God, and something called the 'Yo-He-Ho Theory'.

CW: This episode includes descriptions of real instances of severe child abuse