How To Be The Real You
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
With the help of drama teacher Mr Yale, Greg and Bella find out how to escape stereotyping to become their true selves.
They'll look at the birth of stereotypes in drama and find out why soaps and reality TV still love using them today. They'll talk about their own experiences of conforming to and escaping stereotypes, and hear about the ways other people have defeated typecasting.
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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:08.0 | how can you be the real you? |
| 0:12.0 | Ooh. real you. Oh. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Greg James, I'm Bella Mackie, |
| 0:22.0 | and this is Teach Me Lesson, a podcast that seeks out the finest teachers in the world |
| 0:26.6 | and forces them to teach us a lesson for free. Are we going to say in the world or are we just going to |
| 0:31.3 | say in the country Greg? Well let's be |
| 0:33.9 | inclusive and reach for the stars. Greg is very excited because this is our first |
| 0:38.0 | ever drama lesson. You studied drama at university. Thanks for bringing it up |
| 0:42.3 | English and drama, |
| 0:43.4 | and I got a 2-1, which I was fairly pleased with. |
| 0:47.3 | But we've never seen you on the stage, |
| 0:49.0 | we've never seen you headlining a movie, |
| 0:51.0 | so what happened? Headlining a movie. a movie. |
| 0:53.0 | You could have been in like Eastenden? |
| 0:55.0 | I still could. |
| 0:56.0 | Who would you be in Eastendels? |
| 0:58.0 | Ian Beal's son. |
| 1:00.0 | Today's teacher is a former head boy, Mr Yale. He He is drama teacher at Nunthorpe Academy in Middlesbrough. |
| 1:06.4 | Here to introduce Mr Yale is former pupil Lucy. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi Greg and Beller, I'm Lucy and I've been asked to introduce Mr Yale. He was my A level drama and |
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