808. James Harris returns to talk about his book 📖🗣
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
James Harris is a writer, comedian, English teacher and language learner (French, German, Chinese) from England. In this funny chat, we talk about learning Chinese, being married to a Chinese woman and his semi-autobiographical book, "Midlands" which tells several funny and touching stories about two ex-pats living in Germany; Stuart, who is a stand-up comedian trying to understand the Germans, and Doug who gets involved in a love affair. James reads several passages from the book during the episode.
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👉 Sign up to James' email newsletter "Stiff Upper Quip" for regular short articles in English & more https://stiffupperquip.substack.com/
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👉 Page for this episode on Luke's website https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sJr
👉 Listen to James' first episode on LEP https://youtu.be/nppFuFyIBZU
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, |
| 0:07.2 | visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk. UK. Okay. today. Here is a brand new episode obviously and this one is a conversation with James |
| 0:26.0 | Harris. James is a writer, a comedian, a translator, a language learner, an English teacher, he has many strings to his bow, and he is back |
| 0:36.8 | on the podcast today. The first time he was on this show was in episode number 670 when we talked about learning languages and going |
| 0:47.0 | to Oxford University and various other things. I don't know if you remember that? Of course you |
| 0:51.7 | remember that, don't you? You remember everything, especially |
| 0:54.7 | stuff that happens on this podcast, every single word, right? Yeah, of course. Anyway, James Harris is |
| 1:01.7 | back, it's very nice to have him back, and this time we are talking about a few things, as you'll see, but he's written a book, and we're going to talk about that a little bit and he's going to |
| 1:13.6 | read some sections from the book to us as well and yes another conversation with a |
| 1:20.1 | middle-aged English man who's written a book. |
| 1:23.0 | It's kind of like a little series maybe that I could do. |
| 1:25.6 | Luke talks to other English men who've written books. |
| 1:30.5 | But, so obviously last time it was John Stewart who has written a sort of an academic book about music |
| 1:38.4 | This book as you will discover is more of a personal story. |
| 1:42.6 | And so, well, you'll hear James reading some sections |
| 1:45.8 | from the book to us in the podcast today. |
| 1:49.4 | And if you are interested in reading those sections of the book, then you can actually find those |
| 1:56.5 | extracts on the page for this episode on my website. |
| 2:00.3 | You'll see the text that he's reading on the page for the episode on my website. |
| 2:05.0 | And you could also buy a copy of James's book which I suggest and you'll find a link in the description for that. |
| 2:11.0 | Okay, so without further ado, without any more waffling or |
| 2:14.6 | rambling from me, let's now talk again to James Harris and here we go. |
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