How Equal Is Your House?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Greg James and Bella Mackie are back with a new term of inspiring teachers, mind-blowing lessons and just a tiny bit of bickering.
This week it's sociology with Mrs Sewell, as Greg and Bella ask ‘how equal is your house?’
Find out why Greg not picking up his pants might be a feminist issue, why the Simpsons are so useful to sociologists, the surprising link between Greg’s love of baths and equality, and why Bluey’s dad from CBeebies is Mrs Sewell’s hero.
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your funny school stories - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this lesson, we're going to ask the question, |
| 0:07.4 | how equal is your house? |
| 0:09.5 | And we're also going to try our very best not to get divorced because I don't want you |
| 0:14.3 | better to get divorced for a second time. |
| 0:16.4 | Cheers! |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to Series 2 of Teach Me a Lesson. |
| 0:20.5 | Teach me a lesson. |
| 0:22.4 | Do-dit-dit-dit-doh-doo. Teach me a lesson. Do do it, do it, do it, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, |
| 0:25.0 | do, do, to do, teach me a lesson, okay. Welcome to a brand new series of Teach Me A Lesson. I'm Bella Mackie and I'm Greg James and we are married in sync with each other. |
| 0:46.0 | This is the podcast where we invite some of the most inspirational teachers |
| 0:50.0 | in the UK, nay the world, to teach us their favorite ever lesson. |
| 0:54.8 | The whole of last term is up on BBC Sounds right now, |
| 0:58.4 | but there will be new listeners today, you know that. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, but I hope that you do go back and listen to the previous |
| 1:02.8 | series because you know we did a lot of work for it and mainly it was really good. |
| 1:08.2 | Today's lesson then. It is sociology. Did you ever study sociology at school? |
| 1:15.0 | No, because my school just did the very like the basics. |
| 1:18.0 | It was like math, English, art, science, done. |
| 1:22.0 | Latin. Actually, yeah, done. Latin. |
| 1:23.0 | Actually, yeah, we did. |
| 1:25.0 | Did you? Oh, for God's sake. |
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