Room 101🚪with Charlie Baxter 🇬🇧 Funny British English Listening Practice [980]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Practise listening to British English conversation and enjoy some complaining, ranting and funny anecdotes in this episode based on the concept of a popular BBC TV chat show. My guest is Charlie Baxter from The British English Podcast. Charlie has chosen 3 things which he wants to be locked inside the mythical "Room 101" 🚪 an imaginary place where all the things you hate in the world are stored forever. What would Charlie like to remove from the world to be kept inside this room? And what is the shocking info about a certain popular British English YouTuber 👩🏫 that could break the internet? 🤔
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.com. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, listeners. How are you doing today? Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Let me tell you what you can expect from this episode. |
| 0:22.9 | So, in the UK, in Britain, on the BBC, on television, there's a really popular show and it's called Room 101. |
| 0:33.3 | It's a really popular show. It's the sort of thing that you see on maybe a Friday evening or something |
| 0:38.8 | like that. It's a kind of comedy chat show. It's been on TV for many years, and it's a really |
| 0:45.4 | well-known show. Lots of British people know Room 101. The concept of the show is that there's the host |
| 0:52.4 | and there's the guest, more recent sort of iterations of the show is that there's the host and there's the guest. More recent sort of iterations of the show, |
| 0:58.1 | you see a host and three guests and they sort of compete with each other and stuff like that. |
| 1:04.8 | But the basic idea is that a guest is invited onto the show and they name three things which they would like to be |
| 1:12.3 | removed from the world and banished into this room called Room 101. |
| 1:19.1 | Now, the idea of that is sort of loosely inspired by the story 1984, written by George Orwell, |
| 1:26.6 | which of course is a very serious book, a very important |
| 1:29.4 | book. You might well have read it. And in that book, there is a room which is called Room |
| 1:36.0 | 101. And that's where all of your worst fears and all of the things in the world that you are |
| 1:42.3 | most afraid of and that you hate the most, |
| 1:45.3 | they're all in Room 101. So it's like your nightmare room that you never want to be taken to. |
| 1:51.4 | So that's where the idea of Room 101 came from. But in this TV show, which is a comedy show, |
| 1:57.4 | with famous guests from, you know, all sorts of different lines of work. A lot of |
| 2:03.0 | comedians and actors and celebrities and stuff are invited on. And yes, they name three things |
| 2:08.2 | that they would like to be banished into Room 101. So essentially, three things they want to |
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