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Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
With an all-killer, no-filler syllabus, learn something new every week with Greg James and Bella Mackie. Expect brilliant teachers, lots of laughs and absolutely no homework.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is Greg James and I'm his wife |
| 0:02.0 | Bella Mackie. |
| 0:05.0 | Come on you're more than that best-selling author. |
| 0:09.0 | That's true. |
| 0:10.0 | This is the first time we've ever worked together. Can you tell? At school, I feel like I wasted a bit of time and didn't maybe take the opportunity or grasp |
| 0:20.4 | of opportunities that were offered to me. |
| 0:22.1 | We weren't great students, were we? |
| 0:24.1 | I tried. |
| 0:25.1 | I tried, but I was just distracted by teenage things. |
| 0:29.0 | And I don't mean girls. |
| 0:30.4 | Because I definitely, no one's going to believe that anyway. |
| 0:32.4 | You mean Lego? |
| 0:33.4 | But what we've done is we come up with an idea called Teach Me a |
| 0:36.1 | lesson where we're going to be celebrating some of the greatest teachers in the |
| 0:39.8 | UK and getting them on to teach us and therefore you listening to this a brand new lesson. |
| 0:45.0 | Our lesson title for today is Our People Born Evil. |
| 0:50.0 | Great lesson title. |
| 0:52.0 | What do you know about the suffragettes? I know that they were great. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm glad that you're all four women voting. |
| 1:01.0 | So quite often the French love it. When we go into a shop we buy something like oh |
| 1:05.3 | merci bocou. |
| 1:07.1 | There we sound more like we're saying thanks nice |
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