172. British Comedy: Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

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🗓️ 26 February 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Listen to two comedy sketches from the 1960s, learn some popular cultural history, pick up some vocabulary and hear some posh English accents. For more information and transcripts click here http://wp.me/pG0VZ-xz (Episode page)

Click here to buy the BBC DVD "The Best of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Peter-Cook-Dudley-Moore/dp/B0000AISIV

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information you can visit
0:05.0	teacher Luke. WordPress.com.
0:08.7	Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to Luke's English podcast it's great to be able to
0:14.9	talk to you like this in into your ears ear drums through the medium of technology,
0:23.0	of a speaker, that kind of thing.
0:26.0	Isn't it incredible that this is actually possible
0:29.0	that I can sit here in front of my computer
0:32.0	and just talk to you in this way and then for you to just
0:35.2	somehow magically get that stuff, get these words that I'm saying onto your portable
0:41.6	MP3 device or whatever it is you're using and then you can just listen to it wherever you are whatever you're doing
0:47.0	instantly connecting you with some live English as it's actually happening.
0:52.0	Obviously it's not live, I've been through that before.
0:55.0	This is, I'm recording this. But I'm speaking live now. I am alive and this is being recorded live. I haven't recorded this earlier and then just
1:05.4	played it back into a tape machine. No, this is actually happening right now and
1:09.9	you're now listening to a recording of it. So okay what's this episode all about?
1:15.7	This one is another episode about British comedy. A few weeks ago I started this series
1:21.8	by looking at Ali G and then this time I decided that I'd
1:27.0	go way back into comedy history and basically give you a chance to listen to some really classic stuff from the 1960s.
1:37.6	And we're going to hear a sketch or two from a comedy show called not only but also, which was first
1:46.3	broadcast on the BBC back in the 60s probably 1965 when TV was in black and white and there were only three channels okay
1:56.9	So that's you know ages ago now now. Now I'd love to tell you all about this show and the people who made it
2:05.6	Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are their names and they're basically the fathers of
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