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This episode features a conversation with English writer and comedian Ian Moore.

And in this part we talk mainly about Mod, which is a British subculture involving clothing and music.

But before the interview there is about a 15 minute introduction in which I explain a few things that will help you to fully

understand the conversation. This podcast is for learners of English so sometimes

it's necessary to give support to my listeners in advance of hearing a natural conversation by explaining

things in order to help them to understand it all.

My 15 minute introduction to this episode is mainly an overview of the history of mod culture with a few other short

explanations.

If you want to skip the intro, just move forwards by about 15 minutes and you can just jump

straight to the conversation. However, the introduction is there to help you to understand the cultural references,

some history and other details in our conversation,

so that you can follow exactly what we're talking about and you understand it properly.

Okay, so if you're not interested in hearing the background stuff, skip forwards 15 minutes.

If you want the history and some explanations and a bit of support stick with it.

Okay? Right, so that's my intro before the intro and now that this intro is nearly finished

I'll let you listen to the other main intro which is going to come after this

intro when this intro is finished which is now so here is the proper intro after the

jingle which is going to start as soon as I stop talking which is right now so that's

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