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How you stand, how you walk, the way you smoke a cigarette or comment on the weather - all of these things give out signals about how you think and feel about yourself and others.


We're all engaged in communicating in a secret language that has less to do with what we say than with how we behave as we say it.

Because they tell others what we are really thinking these signals of body talk are called tells.This site explores the secret language we are all using and how we can start to recognise it in ourselves and others.

Election Unspun: What they're really thinking
First transmitted in May 2005

Use our handy guide to the tells of the main party leaders to decide what they're really thinking!

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