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631. 29 Awful Christmas Jokes, Explained
The annual Christmas episode of LEP is here! Explaining 29 truly awful jokes that you might get in a Christmas cracker this year. Enjoy! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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630. The English Guy with a Sitcom on Japanese TV (with BJ Fox)
A conversation with English comedian BJ Fox, who performs stand-up in Japan and has his own TV show on NHK. Our conversation includes the story of how BJ managed to pitch the show to Japanese producers, how he learnt Japanese to a proficient level, doing stand-up in a different culture and much more.
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629. Do you ever ... ? (with James) Strange Habits & Funny Observations
A funny conversation about strange habits that we don't often talk about, with my brother James. Notes & scripts available on the website.
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628. OASIS (with James)
A conversation with James about the English rock band Oasis, including details about their story, music, lyrics and the sibling rivalry between Noel and Liam Gallagher.
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Image: Champagne Supernova by Oasis, record cover. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Champagne_Supernova_sleeve_cover.jpg Fair use summary: Content is for educational purposes and the image represents the subject matter of the episode.
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627. Emina's Long Journey to English Proficiency
My friend Emina Tuzovic has learned English to a proficient level as a non-native speaker of the language. She says it has been "a long journey". Let's find out all about that journey of English learning in this conversation, recorded in London just a couple of days ago.
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626. The Rick Thompson Report: Boris Johnson's Brexit Deal / General Election / Football
An update from my dad about Brexit, including details about Boris Johnson's deal, the shutting down of Parliament, the upcoming general election and more. Includes some chat about Premiership football at the end.
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625. 88 English expressions that will confuse everyone (Part 2)
Let's continue going through this list of words from an article I found in The Independent. Here is another list of 30 items of British English slang. Word list, notes and links available.
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624. 88 English expressions that will confuse everyone (Part 1)
An episode about British English slang and culture, featuring expressions that Brits know but everyone else finds confusing. Here are the first 30 expressions in a list of 88 that I found on independent.co.uk. Includes plenty of funny improvised examples to make you laugh out loud on the bus.
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623. 13 Terrible Jokes, Explained
Actually, it's 17 jokes, including some simple one-liners and a few longer story-based jokes for you to remember and practise telling yourself. Listen to Luke read out and explain some pretty awful but enjoyable word puns and shaggy dog stories, and learn some English in the process.
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622. General Ramble (Oct 2019) Learning English / Politics / Recording Setup / Book Recommendation / Beatles / Star Wars / Bill Bailey
Rambling on my own about all sorts of things including Brexit news, describing my recording setup and microphones, a book recommendation for you, comments about the Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary, the latest Star Wars Episode 9 trailer and Bill Bailey dissecting music in a brilliant way.
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621. British TV: Dragons’ Den (Part 3) Discord in the Den
One more episode about this TV series involving entrepreneurs getting investment for their business startups. In this one there's plenty of disagreement and some strong feedback from the Dragons.
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620. British TV: Dragons' Den (Part 2) Negotiation
Listen to a real business negotiation and learn loads of English in the process. Vocabulary, scripts and notes available below.
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619. British TV: Dragons’ Den (Part 1) Business Vocabulary
Learn tons of business vocabulary in context in this episode all about a TV show about entrepreneurs negotiating investment for their business startups.
This episode contains a business ramble about things like equity investments, financial projections, manufacturing, distribution, logistics chains and marketing. Part 2 contains a real negotiation with plenty of emotional moments.
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618. The Climate Crisis Explained in 10 Charts (with Cara Leopold)
A conversation with Cara Leopold about the climate crisis including descriptions of key charts, graphs and data. Notes and transcripts available.
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617. Sales and Advertising (with Paul Taylor)
A language-focused episode looking at words and phrases that you often see and hear in advertising and sales situations. Also includes discussion of sales techniques, Apple's sales and marketing strategy and also a classic bit of stand-up by the late great George Carlin.
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616. Can you find the 15 idioms? (with Paul Taylor)
Listen to Luke and Paul play a conversation game and try to spot 15 common idioms. All idioms are demonstrated, explained and listed on the website.
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615. Paul Taylor Became a Dad, and you won't believe what happened next
How is Paul getting on as a new dad? How is everything going? What's he angry about this time?
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614. Another Murder Mystery Detective Story (Part 3)
Here's the conclusion of this online murder mystery text adventure game. Vocabulary is reviewed at the end. Video available for premium subscribers.
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613. Another Murder Mystery Detective Story (Part 2)
Here is part 2 of this text adventure game. There's also a video for premium subscribers.
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612. Another Murder Mystery Detective Story (Part 1)
Listen to Luke investigating a 'choose-your-own-adventure' detective story and read along if you like! Learn English in fun ways with stories on Luke's English Podcast. Video available for premium subscribers.
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