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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to the podcast. How are you doing out there in

podcast land? I hope you're doing all right. Here's a new episode and in this

one I'm going to talk a little bit about the results of the British

podcast awards and also do a sort of introduction to the podcast for any new

people who might be listening for the first time. I'll bring you up to speed on

what this podcast is all about and also recommend a few episodes from the

archive that you could listen to. Also for the dedicated language learners at the end of

this episode I'm going to explain 17 expressions which you'll hear as I'm talking

throughout the episode.

So there will be 17 expressions.

I've just sort of inserted 17 bits of vocabulary,

some fixed expressions, idioms, and just nice bits of vocab into the episode and I will explain them all at the end.

So they're 17. Now which expressions will they be you'll have to wait

and see but as ever I I encourage you to listen out for words phrases bits of

grammar and so on as you listen to my episodes, and certainly in this one,

and I encourage you to do that so that you can just notice those bits of language and then add them to your English. It is notoriously

difficult to notice new language when you're listening because unlike when you're

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