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20/20 vision extra

It wasn't laser treatment that you had, they just replaced the lens. You have... you have artificial lenses as it were...
Jul 03,2015

20/20 vision

Cataracts are not a nice thing to have but actually for you they've given you your eyesight back...
Jul 03,2015

Yummy umami

And umami was coined by a Japanese guy and for the Japanese they describe it as 'yummy deliciousness' [Helen laughs]. Now let's... let's go back to the four basic tastes that everyone knows about. There's um... well, there's bitterness.....
Jul 03,2015

The Tube

I can remember the very famous pictures of people sheltering in the Tube tunnels in the Second World War er... using them as air raid shelters...
Jul 03,2015

The yellow jersey

The Tour de France, they recognise that there are different skills involved in... in cycle riding and as well as the green and the yellow they have the polka-dot jersey, for instance, red-polka dots, and that's the king of the mountains, so they have a special jersey for the riders which are best at ..
Jul 03,2015

Poetry

For this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're talking about poetry. Now poetry tends to polarise people because I for one find it... I wouldn't say I hate it but I find it irrelevant and I'm not interested in it...
Jul 03,2015

Pick a pocket or two...

In April of this year, the Louvre had to close because many of the staff were on strike, complaining about the huge numbers of pickpockets there...
Jul 03,2015

British icons: the panto extra

It um… pantomime actually originated in Italy um… but when it came to Britain um… of course we've got this wealth of variety and music hall tradition, it became um… a sort of Christmas variety show. But telling, as you know um… children's stories...
Jul 02,2015

British icons: the panto

It um… pantomime actually originated in Italy um… but when it came to Britain um… of course we've got this wealth of variety and music hall tradition, it became um… a sort of Christmas variety show. But telling, as you know um… children's stories...
Jul 02,2015

Red Nose Day

Every year in March, celebrities and the general public join together for Red Nose Day. You'll see people wearing red noses, red noses on cars, red noses on shirts, the UK is awash with red noses...
Jul 02,2015