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Poppy Day

Around this time of year, at the beginning of November, many listeners may have seen British people wearing poppies. So for this week's podcastsinenglish.com, we're going to talk about Poppy Day...
Jun 27,2015

The people's pope?

Pope Benedict 16th was the first pontiff in 600 years to abdicate, so for this week's podcastsinenglish.com, we're talking about the new pope, Pope Francis...
Jun 27,2015

Planking

The Prime Minister of Australia recently warned her citizens about the dangers of ‘planking’ which threw me completely because 'a’ I have no idea what planking is and ‘b’ I have no idea why it’s dangerous.  But for this week’s podcastsinenglish.com I’m talking to a man who does know...
Jun 27,2015

The Paralympics extra

Before listening: think how blind people could play football...
Jun 27,2015

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

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

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

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

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

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