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The Paralympics
London 2012 refers not only to the Olympic Games but also to the Paralympic Games. So for this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're talking about the Paralympics...
Jun 27,2015
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The octogenarian
Physically sometimes you go to do something that you haven't done for some time and it's much harder, and then you realise that things aren't quite as they used to be, you're not quite as young as you used to be. But in the main you mustn't worry about it, do all the things you can...
Jun 27,2015
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Corporation tax
Recently three big American companies, namely Starbucks, Amazon and Google, have come under the spotlight for paying little or no tax in the UK...
Jun 27,2015
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Lucky 2013
We're talking about magic dates and why 2013 and the rest of the century is unlucky for not having so many...
Jun 27,2015
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The winner takes it all
Every week 90 million pounds is spent on lottery tickets in the UK. So for this week's podcastsinenglish.com, our second podcast on the lottery, we're going to be looking at the winners...
Jun 27,2015
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Money money money
I know amazingly and the biggest win ever: 161 million pounds, would you believe, um... was won by a Scottish couple in July 2011, but only a few months after that another English couple won 101 million pounds...
Jun 27,2015
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And the kids came too extra
We did the sights… the only thing she wanted to do was go shopping so we let her and Ellen go shopping...
Jun 27,2015
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And the kids came too
When we were looking at the brochures, we didn’t think they’d want to come, but when we were looking at the brochures they said, “Oh yes, we’d like to come, free holiday, we’d like to come”...
Jun 27,2015
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A tale of two islands
There are over 6,000 islands that make up the Atlantic Archipelago, more commonly known as the British Isles. And of these 136 of them are permanently inhabited...
Jun 27,2015
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