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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

576. Talking about Comedy, Books, Films & Music with James

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, London, British, Education, Teaching, Language Learning, Comedy, Grammar, Learn, Listening, Speaker, Learning, Vocabulary, Accent, Uk, Podcast, Language

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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576. Talking about Comedy, Books, Films & Music with James

My brother James is back on the podcast for a 90min+ mega-ramble about things like: taking sick days from work, snowboarding, doing stand-up for the first time, the new film about Laurel & Hardy, Steve Coogan / Alan Partridge, The Beastie Boys and making mix tapes on cassette tapes in the 1990s. Intro transcript available.

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0:00.0

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0:11.4

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0:46.6

visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk. Hello listeners welcome to the podcast. In this episode I'm talking again to my

1:00.6

brother James who has appeared on this podcast quite a lot over the years, usually

1:06.1

talking about things like books, films, music and other bits of pop culture.

1:12.0

And in fact, that's what we're talking about in this

1:14.2

episode too. The conversation is about 90 minutes long so if this was the

1:19.3

90s then we could have recorded almost the entire thing on a C90 cassette tape and then just

1:26.2

posted it to you. Do you remember those days when we all used cassette tapes for our music and

1:32.0

you had to rewind them and stick labels on them and sometimes

1:35.7

the tape would get all chewed up inside your Walkman. Ah, good times.

1:40.9

Anyway, this is a 90 minute plus mega ramble with James that covers quite a lot of different things,

1:47.0

but I think that's what you've come to expect from this podcast over the years, isn't it?

1:51.0

I think so, rambling and tangents and conversations like that.

1:56.8

You're mainly listening to this for your English, of course, in the knowledge that listening

2:00.8

to natural conversations like this is generally a healthy

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