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【欢迎订阅】每天早上5:30，准时更新。【阅读原文】标题：When Life Gives You Tangerines ending explained: 5 burning questions finally answered in IU and Park Bo Gum's story finaleThe finale of When Life Gives You Tangerines was a bittersweet farewell, tying up Oh Ae Sun and Gwan Sik's love story with warmth, sacrifice, and a touch of fate.正文：When Life Gives You Tangerines, the Netflix chart-topping K-drama starring IU and Park Bo Gum, finally bid farewell after dominating the non-English TV show category for consecutive weeks. The finale didn't just meet expectations; it delivered a beautiful, heartwarming conclusion to Oh Ae Sun and Gwan Sik's love story. Their journey saw countless springs together, each season bringing new growth, struggles, love, and quiet sacrifices they made for their children and grandchildren.知识点：chart-topping adj. /ˈtʃɑːrtˌtɒpɪŋ/reaching the highest position on a music chart. 登顶排行榜的e.g. The indie band's experimental album unexpectedly became a chart-topping success. 这支独立乐队的实验专辑意外登顶音乐排行榜。获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“外刊”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你！【节目介绍】《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《国家地理》等国际一线外刊。【适合谁听】1、关注时事热点新闻，想要学习最新最潮流英文表达的英文学习者2、任何想通过地道英文提高听、说、读、写能力的英文学习者3、想快速掌握表达，有出国学习和旅游计划的英语爱好者4、参加各类英语考试的应试者（如大学英语四六级、托福雅思、考研等）【你将获得】1、超过1000篇外刊精读课程，拓展丰富语言表达和文化背景2、逐词、逐句精确讲解，系统掌握英语词汇、听力、阅读和语法3、每期内附学习笔记，包含全文注释、长难句解析、疑难语法点等，帮助扫除阅读障碍。

In 1981 the first major series of English lessons was broadcast on Chinese television.President Deng Xiaoping had allowed private enterprise and was pursuing an era of “opening up” to the rest of the world. It followed a decade of educational turmoil when teachers had been castigated as bourgeois by the former leader Mao Zedong.Kathy Flower presented the English education programme, Follow Me, several times a week at primetime. It was watched by an estimated 500 million people keen to get a taste of the English language and observe westerners on television. Kathy Flower recalls to Josephine McDermott what it was like becoming the most famous foreign person in China.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from football in Brazil, the history of the ‘Indian Titanic' and the invention of air fryers, to Public Enemy's Fight The Power, subway art and the political crisis in Georgia. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: visionary architect Antoni Gaudi and the design of the Sagrada Familia; Michael Jordan and his bespoke Nike trainers; Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal; and Görel Hanser, manager of legendary Swedish pop band Abba on the influence they've had on the music industry. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the time an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America's occupation of Iraq; the creation of the Hollywood commercial that changed advertising forever; and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.(Photo: Kathy Flower at a book signing in China. Credit: BBC)

Find it, Fix it, Flog it.On this episode I am joined by Henry Cole. Henry Cole is an English TV presenter, producer and director. On television he is best known for World's Greatest Motorcycle Rides, The Motorbike Show, Shed and Buried, and Find It, Fix It, Flog It. Many of these feature Allen Millyard and in the main are produced by his own production company, HCA EntertainmenMark and Me is now on YouTube - Please subscribe here https://www.youtube.com/@markandmePlease support the Mark and Me Podcast via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Markandme or you can buy me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/markandme.The Mark and Me podcast is proudly sponsored by Richer Sounds.Visit richersounds.com now to shop for all your hi-fi, home cinema and TV solutions. Also, don't forget to join their VIP club for FREE with just your email address to receive a great range of fantastic privileges.The Mark and Me podcast is also proudly sponsored by Vice-Press.If you are a fan of films and pop culture, check out Vice Press. All of their limited edition posters, art prints & collectibles are officially licensed & are made for fans like us to collect & display in their homes. Vice Press work directly with artists and licensors to create artwork and designs that are exclusive to them.This year, Vice Press also launched Vice Press Home Video, dedicated to releasing classic films on VHS. And yes, they play! Get 10% off of your first order using code MARKANDME10 or head to vice-press.com/discount/MARKANDME10Siren Craft Brew is offering Mark and Me listeners £10 off their next order over £50 at sirencraftbrew.com with code 10MARK just in time for the festive season (expires 31/12/2024). That's beers for a party, fridge fillers and gifts sorted! Based in Berkshire, Siren are an award winning, family-owned independent brewery with a wide range of beers to suit all tastes.  All artwork and designs are produced by Dead Good Tees - Dead Good Tee crafts graphic T-shirts for true horror and movie enthusiasts. Drawing inspiration from classic movies, iconic villains, and the darker side of cinema, their designs offer a subtle nod to the genre's most unforgettable moments. Visit www.deadgoodtees.co.uk

진행자: 박준희, Chelsea Proctor 'Culinary Class Wars' producers deny trying to spice up results 기사 요약: '흑백요리사' PD, 공정성 논란에 입 열었다. "방출 규칙 논란, 겸허히 듣고 있다." [1] Netflix's "Culinary Class Wars" is indisputably one of the hottest shows in Korea right now. Since the first episode was released on Sept. 17, the show has skyrocketed in popularity, sitting at the top of Netflix's global non-English TV shows list for two consecutive weeks as of Monday. * Indisputably: 명백하게, 반박의 여지가 없게 * Hottest: 가장 인기있는 * Skyrocket: 급등하다 * Sit at the top: 수석을 차지하다 [2] Riding high on the show's popularity, the participating chefs' restaurants are seeing an explosive surge in reservations and viral memes of the contestants and judges have taken over social media. Even convenience stores have jumped in on the trend, offering products inspired by creations from "Culinary Class Wars." * Ride high: 잘 나가다 * Surge: 급증 * Take over: (~로부터) (~을) 인계받다 * Jump in on the trend: 시류에 편승하다 [3] Despite its huge popularity, however, the show has also suffered from some controversies -- including allegations that producers worked to deliberately have an equal number of contestants from each team advance through the rounds. * Suffer: ~에 시달리다 * Controversy: 논란 * Allegation: 혐의, 주장 * Deliberately: 계획적으로 [4] Addressing the issue, the show's producers expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that an equal number of contestants from the black and white teams ended up advancing through the rounds. * Address the issue: 문제를 해결하다 * Express: (감정·의견 등을) 나타내다 * Dissatisfaction: 불만 * Advance: 진격하다 기사 원문: https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20241007050561 [코리아헤럴드 팟캐스트 구독] 아이튠즈(아이폰):https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2 네이버 오디오 클립(아이폰, 안드로이드 겸용): https://audioclip.naver.com/channels/5404 팟빵 (안드로이드): http://www.podbbang.com/ch/6638

It's Friday afternoon, meaning a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio has been edited and ready to massage your ear holes. This week, we're talking about the Oilers' GM search, the Edmonton heat wave, and whatever random nonsense we could think of to fill the time. The guys kicked off the podcast with a random collection of topics, including a weather report, English TV recommendations, and whatever else they could think of to kill time since there's not much going on. Even though the fellas knew they were supposed to talk about the Oilers, they took a while to actually get going. Once they actually started talking about hockey, the conversation turned to who Jeff Jackson will hire as the Oilers' new general manager over the next few weeks. Will he pick an experienced candidate, as many people suspect, or will he go with a different candidate that no one sees coming? Either way, Jackson said earlier this week that he would like to get someone in place sooner rather than later, so it seems like it won't be much longer until we get our answer.Finally, we wrapped up the Friday episode of ONR with some Ask the Idiots questions, Kennedy's quote game, and another round of Hot and Cold Performers. Despite the fact that nothing is happening in the hockey world right now, the fact that we were able to knock out more than an hour of hockey content is truly remarkable. That's not to say that we need a parade, but we wouldn't be opposed to one if someone would like to organize it.

It's Friday afternoon, meaning a fresh episode of Oilersnation Radio has been edited and ready to massage your ear holes. This week, we're talking about the Oilers' GM search, the Edmonton heat wave, and whatever random nonsense we could think of to fill the time. The guys kicked off the podcast with a random collection of topics, including a weather report, English TV recommendations, and whatever else they could think of to kill time since there's not much going on. Even though the fellas knew they were supposed to talk about the Oilers, they took a while to actually get going. Once they actually started talking about hockey, the conversation turned to who Jeff Jackson will hire as the Oilers' new general manager over the next few weeks. Will he pick an experienced candidate, as many people suspect, or will he go with a different candidate that no one sees coming? Either way, Jackson said earlier this week that he would like to get someone in place sooner rather than later, so it seems like it won't be much longer until we get our answer.Finally, we wrapped up the Friday episode of ONR with some Ask the Idiots questions, Kennedy's quote game, and another round of Hot and Cold Performers. Despite the fact that nothing is happening in the hockey world right now, the fact that we were able to knock out more than an hour of hockey content is truly remarkable. That's not to say that we need a parade, but we wouldn't be opposed to one if someone would like to organize it.

Elias Makos welcomes in Gabriel Retta, Chief of Staff to the Official Opposition at Montreal City Hall, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor. Beginning today, the PQ will run pro-independence ads on English TV, something the party says they've never done before Mayor Valerie Plante is in Hollywood, trying to bring more film and TV production to the city Last night on the Plateau 2 men and 1 teen were stabbed to death following an altercation

Claire Ross-Brown is an English actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist with extensive experience in both the entertainment industry and the business world. Launching her acting career at the age of 14, Claire quickly made a name for herself with appearances in popular English TV shows such as EastEnders; and in feature films like The Rainbow. Her expertise also spans the financial sector, where for over 30 years she has been a pivotal figure, providing advice to industry leaders including Cashworks, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse on talent management, corporate partnerships, and strategic deal-making. In 2019, armed with a deep understanding of modern business and financial practices, Claire founded CJ London, a luxury fashion brand known for its exceptional yet accessible “Timeless Classics” collections. Centered around the iconic "little black dress", CJ London is committed to sustainability, using eco-friendly materials and processes to cater to fashion enthusiasts globally. In the dynamic landscape of blockchain technology, Claire Ross-Brown joined Concordium, a pioneering Layer One blockchain, as an advisor and news anchor in 2021. Her involvement with Concordium positioned her at the vanguard of blockchain innovation, where she leveraged her expertise to offer strategic insights and effectively communicate intricate blockchain concepts to a broad audience. Simultaneously, Claire took the role as Executive Director and presenter at Crypto Channel Direct. This weekly program has quickly become a staple in the crypto community, with Claire dissecting the most pressing crypto and blockchain news, offering opinions, and providing informative segments that elucidate the industry's most complex topics. Claire's dedication to demystifying the often opaque world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology made her a trusted voice in the community. Her ability to translate the nuances of digital currencies and the underlying technology into accessible and engaging content ensures that viewers are consistently well-informed and ahead of the curve. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

When you hear the story of how syphilis research was carried out in the United States in the 20th century, you'll probably start to understand why there is a history of mistrust of the medical establishment, especially among the African American community.  This episode details one of the bleakest and most shameful chapters in U.S. medical history, a time when ethics were cast aside at the expense of minority communities.  We'll talk about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (aka Tuskegee Experiment) as well as the Guatemala syphilis experiments that preceded them.  Sources:For symptom confirmation: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/syphilis-epidemiology-pathophysiology-and-clinical-manifestations-in-patients-without-hiv?search=syphilis&source=search_result&selectedTitle=3~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=3#H10 UpToDate (paywall)Emily Blunt gets Syphilis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_(TV_series)Medical Microbiology, Chapter 36: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7716/ Wikipedia Syphilis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyphilisLong Article on Syphilis Origin: https://asm.org/Articles/2019/June/Revisiting-the-Great-Imitator,-Part-I-The-Origin-aRepublication of the AP study about Tuskeegee: https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-syphilis-e9dd07eaa4e74052878a68132cd3803aBioethics statement on Guatamala Studies: https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcsbi/sites/default/files/Ethically%20Impossible%20(with%20linked%20historical%20documents)%202.7.13.pdfWikipedia on Guatemala Studies: Sponsor: Artery InkUse promo code LISTENTOPHP at Artery Ink's website to save 10%* on your order of $35 or more and show support for our show as well as for a homegrown, wonderful local company. Artery Ink specializes in apparel and decor inspired by anatomy and the human body. Whether you're in the field of healthcare or not, Artery Ink has something that will definitely appeal to you so go and check them out! (*Discount code does not apply to subscription boxes)Submissions for Mike's Trivia Challenge Segment:-We invite our audience to submit medical history trivia questions (with or without a supporting article) to see if Mike happens to know the answer off the top of his head.-If Mike is wrong we'll award you your very own medical eponym so that you can join us in becoming a part of medical history.-Submit through our website, social media DMs, or via e-mail: poorhistorianspod@gmail.comPodcast Links:-Linktree (reviews/ratings/social media links): linktr.ee/poorhistorianspod-Merch Site: https://www.teepublic.com/user/poor-historians-pod...

The writers strike is over so new programming — at least in the form of late-night television — will be returning soon. But with actors still on strike, most television shows and movies are not yet completely back in production. That means in most cases actors can't promote their work, which has led to some offbeat movie premieres such as a record number of dogs showing up on the red carpet for "PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie." But not all actors are prohibited from speaking to the media, which meant a new interview from co-host Bruce Miller with Oliver Dench (yes, he's related to Judi Dench) talking about "Hotel Portofino." Bruce and co-host Terry Lipshetz have been using the time to get caught up on the limited new films and shows hitting theaters and streaming services such as the new series "Gen V," the latest "Star Wars" installment "Ahsoka" and the new baseball documentary "The Saint of Second Chances." Bruce also managed to make it to the end of the fourth installment in the "Expendables" franchise. It's a pretty big list, so be sure to use our list below to help map out your schedule!  Where to watch "PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie" in theaters "Hotel Portofino" on PBS "Reservation Dogs" on Hulu "Gen V" on Amazon Prime Video "The Boys" on Amazon Prime Video "Selling the OC" on Netflix "Selling Sunset" on Netflix "Ahsoka" on Disney+ "The Saint of Second Chances" on Netflix "Fair Play" in theaters Sept. 29 and Netflix Oct. 6 "Painkiller" on Netflix  "Dopesick" on Hulu "The Mosquito Coast" on AppleTV+ "Expend4bles" in theaters Contact us! We want to hear from you! Email questions to podcasts@lee.net and we'll answer your question on a future episode! About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Headliner and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz discuss writers' strike ending Terry Lipshetz: Just a quick note about this episode Bruce Miller and I recorded after it was revealed that writers and studios agreed to a new contract and had stopped picketing. But prior to writers being given permission to return to work. Welcome everyone, to another episode of streamed and screened an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and co-host of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, we got some good news. Bruce Miller: There is news. Terry Lipshetz: We have a almost, almost it's not officially, not all the I's dotted and T's crossed, but we're so close, so close with the writers. Bruce Miller: How good is it if we have no actors that can do the scripts that they're writing? Terry Lipshetz: Right, exactly. But it could mean things like our late night programs come back a little Jimmy Fallon, maybe. Bruce Miller: How good is it if all we get are late night programs and game shows? It'll be game shows galore with all the Jeopardy champion of Champions, the ultimate reality star game show. I think tonight, too, we start Dancing with the Stars. So that is not really covered by the rules, apparently. Terry Lipshetz: Right. Bruce Miller: because you can dance, but you probably shouldn't talk. Terry Lipshetz: It is kind of quirky. There's these little carve outs here and there, like broadcasters for sporting events. They're members of the Actors Guild, but it's a carve out for them. And there's other little things, like know, because, like, Drew Barrymore was coming back with her then, and then that got reversed because she had a couple writers that were on strike, and so they pulled the plug on again. You know, she's an actor, but presumably now with the writer's strike ending, we'll be back at work very soon. Bruce Miller: And I think she's a producer too. So what trumps what highest title that you carry? Terry Lipshetz: So it's good news. It sounds like they pulled, the Writers Guild told their membership, you can stop picketing. We'll get you the information. We really haven't seen too many details yet come out, but they just sounded very happy with it. They'll send it to voting members. It said like a week to ten days, and then they should be kind of back at it, which on one hand gives you optimism because you think, okay, they got the writers done now, they're going to move over and we can get the actors done. But then right before we came on to do this show, I saw that the screen actors just voted to begin a, walkout against video game makers. Because there's actors involved with the making of video games, because you've got voice actors and stunts and things like that that they use for motion capture and all that. A lot of the video game makers are the same groups that are in charge of studios like Disney and Sony Entertainment and all these. So, the last strike, against video games, 2016. And it lasted nearly a year. So a little concerning. I don't know how this will play. Bruce Miller: I think we can give up video games. I don't care. Terry Lipshetz: My kids might care. Bruce Miller: Bring the acting back. That's what I want most of all. Well, we wish them well, and we hope that they reach a quick resolution on all of that, because it is making it difficult for us. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah, well and it makes your job difficult because you like to, of course, talk to the actors. Bruce Miller: I'd rather talk to an actor than a producer. Terry Lipshetz: Would you talk to a dog? Bruce Miller: I would talk to a dog. Terry Lipshetz: Dogs that apparently aren't covered by the Screen Actors Guild. Because I don't know if you saw this, but Paw Patrol: The mighty movie, had its big red carpet premiere, and 219 dogs showed up to watch the premiere. Because dogs will sit and watch a premiere, and it set a new Guinness, world record. Bruce Miller: So that's where we're at with each. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. It's gone to the dogs. Hollywood has gone to the dogs. Bruce Miller: Well, wait till they start striking. Imagine what they'll do. Terry Lipshetz: They'll bury their bones. Bruce Miller: Or they might just all do a no walk out and then no walking. And then they come to this, and they take a dump right on that red carpet. Right? There you are. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah, I know. Bruce Miller: It's been done before, so I think we're okay. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. And then there's some programming out there that are the equivalent, I guess. But it's given us, some opportunity. We're getting caught up on things that there isn't a lot of new material. There's some there's some things here and there. Bruce Miller: I have started watching some new shows. There's season two of, Hotel Portofino. Have you seen this one? It was on Bridgebox, and now it's moving over to PBS. And it's very Downton Abbey, if you're looking for something like that. It's about the family that runs a hotel. And it's set many years ago in the early 20th century, rather, 19 hundreds, whatever. And very glossy, with upstairs downstairs kind of talent and a little dirty. We'll just say that. Put that out there. And, interesting. So that was good. The Boys on Amazon is about superheroes who are evil and vile Bruce Miller: This week is the last week of reservation dogs on FX, if you want to see the end of that. In the last episode, I cried profusely, so you have that to look forward to. I have seen the first episodes of Gen V. Now, if you're a Boys fan, the Boys on Amazon, where it's about the superheroes. Are you familiar with this? Terry Lipshetz: I'm not, no. Bruce Miller: The Boys, it's about a world in which superheroes are kind of the ultimate. They really run everything. And there's a group called the Seven. Homelander is the leader of the Seven, and they seem like very kind of noble and virtuous and looking for all the right things. Well, you realize that that's an act that's an image that they're putting on, and behind the scenes, they're evil and vile, and they're slitting everybody's throat. And there's a group of people who are trying to take down these superheroes. Okay, so that is the boys. Now, there's a new sequel, ah, series called Gen V. And Gen V is about training people to be in that superhero world. Fascinating. Fascinating. It's like a college drama. And they go to this college, that they have abbreviated to God You, and they learn how to harness their powers and use it for various different crime fighting as a class. And, you see the kind of unpolished versions of their things. It's very X Men. If you're into the X Men, it's like but one of the stars of the show is Patrick Schwarzenegger. Arnold's Son plays this kind of golden boy, and he's the one that they all want to be, but he turns into Fire. And apparently he doesn't wear clothes, because they always talk about how he is naked, but his kind of temper gets the best of him. And if people are taunting him or whatever, he could be trouble. So you see that he could be another Homelander who is vile. But you don't know how this plays out in school. And the first episodes were great, but dirtier than you can believe. This is not, something that you let your kids watch. It is not Riverdale at all. There's one woman who becomes small. She can shrink down to, like, the size of, a paperclip. And she meets a kid at college who wants her to get small for various reasons. And I can't explain them on a podcast that hopefully is going everywhere. Yeah, it's dirty, dirty, dirty. Terry Lipshetz: Wow. Bruce Miller: If you're looking for an adult kind of look at the superhero world, gen V, wow. Terry Lipshetz: I might have to check that out. You know, I'm not a big superhero person, but something that's a little off the beaten path. Bruce Miller: Yeah, the Boys is a good kind of entry drug with this, because if you don't like superheroes, you get to see how nasty they really are. And so it makes you, yes, be that bad. I like that. And then you've seen how they have morphed and how they're actually fighting each other to be seen as the most virtuous. it's very good. And the seven always is, like, shifting. You never know who's part of the seven on one time or not. And it's run by an evil corporation. Of course it's run by an evil and they are pulling the strings on these poor superheroes. But now we're at the college, and we're trying to see how that all shakes down with them. So that's a new one that will be starting very soon. And then it, just started, but I binged the whole thing selling the OC. Now, if you're a fan of those real estate shows where they also never work, right? This is one of them. This is a companion to selling sunset. And that was about the people who work in Beverly Hills in like a strip mall. And they never seem to be selling a home. They always have these listings for like 35 million. And then all they do is walk around the house and have a party there. And then you never hear that somebody sold this. Well, now Selling the OC is the companion piece there in Orange County. And they've got a better office, but still just as much drama. And the women all look like they're going out for some evening cocktail up there. When they're in the office during the daytime, you think, do you really wear an evening gown for daytime work? And never, ever shuffle a piece of paper? They're just sitting there all the time gossiping about each other. And this one guy, Tyler, is kind of, not, necessarily a target, but a goal for many of the women there because he got divorced from his wife, who happens to be Britney Snow, who was in a bunch of TV series in the past. And they all think they could be the new Britney Snow. So they're all kind of like sucking up to Tyler and seeing if he know. How are you feeling? Can we have a talk? Can I do a one on one? Can we just converse about your situation? And Tyler is like drinking it all in. He is taking all the attention. I don't think that guy has ever sold a house. If he has, I'd like to see the paperwork because it sure isn't coming through on the show. But fascinating to watch. I, binge the whole thing. And then of course, what do we always do when we are in real estate? We have a pajama party at, one of our properties so that then, we can all just wear nightwear. And doesn't this kind of just open the floodgates to god knows what? I don't think I'm just going to look at you in the baby doll pajamas. I think I might actually make a. Terry Lipshetz: Move that doesn't seem appropriate. Does this violate some aspect of. Bruce Miller: Context laws against this? Because I sure open, up a, selling OC rule about you cannot fraternize with the other people in the office. It's not happening. But it was. Yeah, I binged it. That's how good it was. Netflix's House Hunters is aimed at prospective buyers looking for homes Terry Lipshetz: Okay. Bruce Miller: Netflix. And, I just saw oh, I'll watch one. I haven't seen one for a while and we'll see what happens. No property sold here. Terry Lipshetz: I might have to check that out. I don't mind watching some of those house selling like it's a little bit more house hunters. Bruce Miller: Yeah, but a house hunter is unrealistic expectations. Terry Lipshetz: Right. Bruce Miller: Want the $2 million home for $200,000. And they're always, ah, we entertain. And you never see those people entertain ever. It's relatives and the real estate agent, that's who shows up. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. I know somebody, a, former colleague, I want to say, reached out to House Hunters to see how you can get on the program when she was looking for a house. And it's actually, you know, how this is going to go anyway because there's obviously behind the scenes drama of how this all gets set up. But basically they told her you have to have an accepted offer and then we'll show you two other houses. And then you get blown away by. Bruce Miller: The house, basically, that you're already badmouth the ones that you aren't going to take. Terry Lipshetz: Right. Bruce Miller: I think there's possibilities. I like that highway going through the middle of our yard. Maybe a deterrent, maybe. Terry Lipshetz: But it could be making commuting easier too. Bruce Miller: It could. And then we have easy access. Right. I think we're all right. Too bad we have a lot of dogs, animals, and children that could get hit by a car in the process. But on keeping it on the list. The latest entry into Star Wars. Been watching it with my daughter Terry Lipshetz: Well, like you, I've been trying to crush through some things before regular programming gets back to us. So ahsoka. the Star Wars. The latest entry into Star Wars. Been watching it with my daughter, who's also a huge Star Wars fan. This week is the 7th episode and then, first week of October is already the 8th and final episode of season one. I don't recall how many episodes or how many seasons they're planning. I don't think it's going to know eight seasons. It's going to be two or three. Because what I've read is that they're going to take ahsoka, and then they're going to take the Mandalorian and the book of Boba Fett. They're going to marry them all together into something for movie theaters. Like there's going to be some big movie that's going to come out that's going to tie up all these storylines because they essentially take place the same timeline of the same universe. I would say that this is a good show. We've enjoyed it. The two problems that I have with it is if you didn't watch the cartoon Star Wars Rebels, you would be really lost with this. And I know a lot of people who kind of didn't really you're a Star Wars fan, but maybe didn't want to watch the cartoons because you thought, I'm a little too adult for the cartoons. And if you didn't watch those cartoons, you would really be lost with some of these characters who are in this because it basically picks up a few years after the final episode of the final season of Star Wars Rebels. But if you're a fan of Star Wars Rebels and a lot of people who I know who watch the show were because it was a really good cartoon, I thought they did a really nice job with it. I think you'd be a fan of this show. The only downside I would say with Ahsoka is it feels like they're taking a really long time to kind of get to a certain point. And then we're going to go to this big cliffhanger to season two. It just feels like we're not trying to tie up any loose ends quickly in any way. Yeah, the big villain that they've been talking about for almost the entirety of The Run so far only recently made an appearance. And you're only going to get basically two episodes out of him. Three episodes. So it's kind of a slow build. I think it's really good. I don't know if the series is as good as Andor, which really, really liked. But I might put this one ahead of the Mandalorian because I think this one might be yeah, it's good. And it kind of gets you back to Jedi because a lot of the series that we've done, we've kind of moved away from Jedi and looked more kind of the ordinary people within the universe. but now we're getting back to lightsabers and using the Force and things like that. So it's kind of fun to move back into that world a little bit. Bruce Miller: You know, what I don't like about those kinds of shows is they never have a chill day. They never say, you know, today we're not going to go out and do Jedi games. Terry Lipshetz: We're just going to sit still at. Bruce Miller: Home and look at the rocks that we've got in our yard and kind of just decide what we like about ourselves. They don't that stuff. They're always on a mission for something. Terry Lipshetz: They are. And the missions don't go to plan. They never go to plan. Bruce Miller: Okay, who drinks blue milk? What Star Wars One is that? Terry Lipshetz: That was, the first the original one, the Bantha milk. Come on. Bruce Miller: Because they do have that at the Disney, parks, the, Resistance. And there's a bar there and you can get the blue milk. And I always wondered what would that taste like because I don't like milk anyway. So if you threw some blue coloring in it, does that make it any better? Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. Well, what is it? Does it taste like? Is it just milk with blue? No, I think it's something else. Bruce Miller: I think there's liquor in it. Terry Lipshetz: Well, then I would enjoy that. Bruce Miller: See, that's probably what they do is they're also liquored up. So they really don't know what they're doing and, going from there. But are there more announced? Are there other Star Wars series that are coming? Terry Lipshetz: Or yeah, there's a couple others. but some of them are in this kind of gray area like the Acolyte, which is supposed to be coming out. But that one it sounds like production has kind of been up and down. I don't know what the current status of that one is. I know there's another season of Andor coming up, another season of Mandalorian, coming up. But I don't recall offhand what the timeline of releases is and also how much of it has been maybe delayed by the strikes that have been going on, too. You could do a high school Kylo Ren. What was he like in school Bruce Miller: Okay. Would we ever have, like, the Adam Driver character? What was his name? Terry Lipshetz: Oh, yeah. well. Bruce Miller: Kylo Ren's early years. What was he like in school? Was he a real brat, or was he a good guy and then he turned bad, or what? Terry Lipshetz: Well, he was Ben Solo, the son of, Han and Leia. Bruce Miller: But then wasn't he kind of like, I don't know who my family yep. So wouldn't he be a good one to kind of lean into? Terry Lipshetz: It would be a, and this is where the current producers it's paying a lot of fan service. It's that kind of Luke Skywalkers post Return to the Jedi. And they've brought him in a couple of times using CGI, making Mark Hamill look a lot younger than he is. But, I think they know that era is something that fans are really interested in, but of AI is a major player because unless you recast those roles, a lot of those characters are getting too old and they can't play themselves anymore. Bruce Miller: You could do a high school Kylo Ren. Terry Lipshetz: That'd be fun. Bruce Miller: And then Kylo could be like, maybe people pick on him too much know he doesn't really know where he belongs. He's not picking a lane. And then he turns dark, and then he realizes, oh, gow, I'm into something here. I'm getting attention. I think it could be something the early years of his career as a bad guy. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. And, you know, prom night won't go well. There'll be something. Bruce Miller: Oh, God. It's a Carrie. It's Carrie all over again. Except it's Kylo, and he'll be mad. Terry Lipshetz: That's right. There is a really good baseball documentary that just came out on Netflix Terry Lipshetz: So I've been watching, know you've been talking about some shows you've been watching on Netflix. I don't know if you're a baseball fan at all, but there is a really good baseball documentary that just came out in the last week. It's called the Saint of second chances. And I don't know if you've ever heard the story of Mike Veck. He's the Son of Veck. Bruce Miller: I know who he bill, we, have a team here that played in the same league as his team, the. Terry Lipshetz: St. Paul the St. Paul Saints, right? Yeah. So Mike Veck, the son of Bill Veck, who is an owner of the Chicago White Sox, mike Vek came up with he was a very innovative know, if you think about luxury suites, that was something that Mike Vek introduced in old Kamisky Park as a way to bring in extra revenue. But he also came up with Disco Demolition Night, which did not go so well. And it pretty much drove him out of the game of baseball for quite a few years until he was able to redeem himself as owner of the St. Paul Saints. So the saint of second chances. It kind of goes into his relationship with his father, his relationship with baseball, the relationship he had with his daughter, who he brought in to help, him as a little child and then was hoping to bring up and continue working in the family business of baseball. And there's some emotional things that go in. I don't want to reveal too much. Bruce Miller: About the story, participate or not. Terry Lipshetz: Mike thack yes. Yeah, he helps narrate and very good story. And they talk with a lot of folks too, that it wasn't just about his second chance, but second chances for other people. Like, there was this one woman who all she ever wanted to do is play baseball. But you can't let a girl play baseball, right, because it's a boys game. And she was somebody who he brought in to pitch for the St. Paul Saints. So they talk with her. They talk with Daryl Strawberry, who was a very famous baseball player who pretty much worked himself out of the game because of substance, abuse problems. And he gave Daryl a second chance with the St. Paul Saints. And it helped get him back into Major League baseball. So it gets into that, and they talk with Daryl Strawberry. So it's a really fascinating look. And if you're a fan of sports documentaries, baseball documentaries, it's really good. And I would know. Hop onto Netflix ASAP and check that one out. Bruce Miller: Is Bill Murray in it? Terry Lipshetz: Bill Murray actually is sort of I don't recall him being interviewed, but he does make an appearance in it, yes. Bruce Miller: And where is that located? Where can I find that? Terry Lipshetz: That is Netflix. Bruce Miller: Netflix. So we'll be looking. Yeah, Netflix. I can never tell what they've got coming. It's a price. I've got one coming next week, I believe, in theaters from Netflix. And then it goes in October to, it'll be streaming on Netflix. And it's called fair play. Incredible, incredible relationship drama. Reminded me a lot of, fatal, attraction. It's about a couple who work in a trading firm. And they're a couple. I mean, you see a lot of it's rated R for a reason. And then he thinks he is going to get the promotion when this one guy is out. And she's all supportive and everything. And then he doesn't get it. She gets it. And then you see how their relationship changes and shifts throughout the course of their relationship. And it's fascinating. It's very much like some of the things, Emerald Fennell did a film a couple of years ago she won an Oscar for. It about this woman getting back at somebody for her friend. It's a fascinating, fascinating film. The woman, I don't know who she is. Phoebe Dynavore. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it right. But she is very good. And she plays opposite Alden Aaron Reich. And you've seen him in a lot of but he never he's in a Star Wars one. I think he's Han Solo. Correct. He has never really gotten that kind of break that I think he deserves. And this could be it. But it is very good. It's opening in theaters. It's called fair play. It'll open next week. And then it's going to open on, Netflix, on a streaming basis in October. Terry Lipshetz: Wow, that sounds good. I'm definitely going to well, and I may have know because it's crazy. You get those emails from Netflix saying, coming soon. And I'll look at the trailer. What is know? Bruce Miller: I don't know what this is. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. And I'll put it in the reminder. Bruce Miller: Because then they'll just keep bugging me all the time if they know that I'm looking for that. You probably forgot that you did this, right? I don't need it. Mosquito: We're getting caught up on a few TV shows Bruce Miller: What else have you seen? Terry Lipshetz: We're getting caught up a little bit. I mean, there's no new programs for the most part. So we're getting caught up on a few things. My wife and I started Painkiller, which is starring Matthew Broderick as, you know, from Purdue Pharma. And it kind of gets into it's another dramatization about the Opioid crisis. It's okay. first of all, it's very weird watching Matthew Broderick playing somebody that old. Because I'm still in my mind, he's still bueller. Bruce Miller: Yeah. Terry Lipshetz: And if he's old, that means I'm old and I can't be that old yet. Can I really be that old? Bruce Miller: No, you're younger than me. So that gives you a leg up right there. Terry Lipshetz: So it's, looking it's a different perspective of the crisis. Bruce Miller: How similar is it to dopesick dopesick. Terry Lipshetz: With Michael Keaton I thought was really good. I thought Michael Keaton in that was really good. But the perspective of Dopesick was coming mostly from the doctor, the prescriber end of things. And this is more of the investigation side of things and the Purdue Pharma side of things. Not painting Purdue Pharma in a good light in any way, but it's more of how the crisis was manufactured from that end. And then it looks at some of the stories of how they got to where they got to. I don't think the stories are as compelling as Dope sick, but we're not going to stop watching it. It's a six episode miniseries. How far are you in three episodes? Bruce Miller: you kind of have to make a choice. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. We're at that point now where I think we're committed and we'll knock it off and it's not bad. But Michael Keaton I thought, was just very good. Michael Keaton is just, to me, has aged very well as an actor. Like he's gotten yeah. Yeah. It's not just the goofy little things know, you think of him as like, Beetlejuice and some of those comedies he did. But some of the things that he's done later in life have just gotten so much good. Really good. Bruce Miller: I find. you do get to that point where you say, do I fish or do I cut bait? And I will bail on series. I have had one and done. I'll watch one episode, realize this is way too much for me to invest. And the first killer, with those things is when it says ten episodes, because somewhere around seven, it wanes until we get to nine, and then it'll pick up, and then you get the ten. And it's all right. Sometimes I have even watched one, and if I have the access to the ten, I'll watch the ten and I won't watch ones in the middle. Terry Lipshetz: Interesting. Yeah. Bruce Miller: Might be bad, but, life's too short. And I believe that you shouldn't have to watch crap just because you made an investment initially. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. There is a couple shows that my wife and I watched, like, we watched a little bit of that. Was it tomorrowland on Apple TV? The one yeah. And it looked was I we didn't make it to the end of episode one, and we just, I can maybe see where it's going, but I can't dig in on this one. There was another one, too. Bruce Miller: Yeah, I watched it all, and I thought, where are they going with this? Because I bought in in the beginning that it was, this is the way the world is. We are doing this. And then you realize it's a scam, and they're, just scamming people. And then how are they getting out of the yeah. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. So I just couldn't get emotionally invested into it. Now, there was another one that was also on Apple TV Plus, where I watched the first season. My wife and I watched the season, and we liked it. And then it came back for season two. But then I read that it got canceled because the ratings weren't quite there. And a number of the reviewers said, well, it kind of ends on a cliffhanger now, so am I going to watch it? Aren't I going to watch it? It was the Mosquito Coast, and, I liked season one of the Mosquito Coast, but I couldn't quite figure out if I wanted to invest it. And we got hung up in that spot of like, do we watch it? Don't we watch it? We went ahead and watched it. I didn't love it, but it doesn't end on a cliffhanger. I thought it wrapped up for me. Bruce Miller: I was done. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. It got to the end. I was like, okay, we kind of dragged this out. The performances in season one I thought were better, and this one is just kind of it was a little too over the top, but it ends, like, where it ends. You're fine. I was totally fine. There is that last episode. It is explosive. There is some drama, some characters may or may not be with us to the very end, but it does not end on some weird cliff where. You're like, they canceled it. Now I'm never going to be able to know what happens because I was totally fine with it. Bruce Miller: Watch the Harrison Ford movie and you got it all. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah, I probably got it. I watched that so, so long ago. I don't even remember know that's why. Bruce Miller: They'Re remaking things is you don't remember what? Terry Lipshetz: I remember a minute, and I remember watching it, but I don't even remember it at this point. It was so long ago. Yeah. Bruce Miller: And they always wanted to throw in something that well, we never thought that there would be, like, robots. And so they'll throw in a robot in a show. The Expendables Four looks like it was written by a computer Bruce Miller: Not in this one, necessarily, but wait a minute now. this was like a 1950s movie, and we changed it a little and we threw in a robot. Oliver Dench: What is all about? Bruce Miller: But it's just a way to again, this may go back to the writer strike where they just kind of take some property and twist it a little bit, and then the original creator gets nothing from it, right. So maybe they'll be protected. I hope to God that we don't see AI things. I hope they are not going to be the future. I have seen those some m good AI things, I got to tell you. Oddly enough, this last week, I went to see Expendables Four, okay? I swear that was written by a computer. It had to be. It was so bad. It was so bad. It's the kind of movie that when you go to it, you think, are they reading from teleprompters? They've got to be reading from teleprompters because you wouldn't remember this crappy dialogue if you tried. And then their eyes are darting and you think, that's got to be reading across the screen while they're looking at something. Plus, which they haul in people that you think, where did these people come from? I am not familiar with this person. I don't know if he's a big star in Korea or what he is, but apparently he's a big deal because he's in this show, so you don't know those things. And then they all back. And sure it's Sylvester Stallone. And Jason Statham star as the expendables that we remember. Dolph Lundgren's in there, too. And poor Dolph Lundgren has this bad wig that he wears, and they reference Farah Fawcett. And I'm thinking, who would remember Farah Fawcett's hairdo as the reason why you would reference Farrah Fawcett? You wouldn't. You just mean it doesn't work for today. I get it, but it's bad. And then they make a bad, bad joke about Stevie Wonder, which I think that is not relevant today, nor is it something you would include in your movie. And then you look at the film and you see that they have so much green screen in this sucker that basically it could have been shot in my backyard. There is no need for all of that and the special effects are really unspecial. The fight scenes are very bad. It goes down a list and you think, who talked them into this? This has got to be, clearly a money grab. And then, of course, you have the ultimate evidence that it is a money grab and that's that it has Andy Garcia in the film. Name a decent film that Andy Garcia has made in the last five years. You cannot but he's always in movies. He's in those book club movies. He's in all of these other kind. He plays this kind of role. And, I think, oh, Andy Garcia's here. That should be something to tell you. What's up with this? Megan Fox is in there, too, but you don't know really. What is she, an expendable? Is she really one of those people? And she turns out to be Jason Statham's girlfriend, but she has martial arts skills, so bring her with I think she can work on this. But that's where you get with this stuff. You think they're writing it. It's machines that are writing this crap because it sounds too unrealistic to even buy. Terry Lipshetz: Nobody saw it. Nobody watched that movie. Do you see it opened? It got beaten by the nun, the nun two in the third weekend. Bruce Miller: But, you put names like that and whenever they have a big list of names, this goes back many, many years. If you may remember, back in the 60s, cinerama was a big thing and, this widescreen stuff, and they would put casts of thousands in them. And how the west was won was one who had every big name star there was. Then we had the disaster films that had all the big name stars in it. And now we're into that era where it's action adventure, and it's usually people who aren't good actors, but they can do a dust hunt or two and then have a catchphrase or throw off a good liner now and then. And so it ends up being, this is how we're putting them in there. And, do we need it? I don't think we need it. The really strange thing is my phone fell off my lap into the seat. And they're recliner seats. And I must spend a good 15 minutes digging that chair to try and find the phone that I thought was actually more action and better action than what I was seeing on the screen. Terry Lipshetz: People were watching you, if there was actually anybody there. And they're thinking, wow, this guy over here. This is the best part of the movie. Watch this guy dig for his phone. Bruce Miller: I'm digging for the phone. And I tell you, if there was $50 bills in there, I don't know, there could have been money in that seat. When I started messing around, I did find popcorn, but so that was good. And I did get the phone. Ultimately, I did get the phone. Terry Lipshetz: Well, that's good. Andy Garcia was supposed to be the next Al Pacino Terry Lipshetz: I am laughing now thinking, though, because you bring up Andy Garcia. And the first thing that comes to my mind is his addition to, the Godfather trilogy. Bruce Miller: Right. He was kind of the next, Al Pacino. He was going to be the heir apparent. And he got great work, and he did great work. But now it's like that thing where you go, who else is in this? Andy Garcia. Let's get Andy. So he must play well with a certain audience. And they go, oh, yeah, Andy Garcia's in it. But I think he might be the sign of a bad movie now, because he's taking everything he can get. And it probably isn't reading the scripts. Because I thought he was a good actor at one point. I really did. But this crap. Terry Lipshetz: he's going to. Bruce Miller: Do the sequel to, Al's extra work. Terry Lipshetz: He could instead of AI, they could use Andy Garcia to play a younger Al Pacino. There you go. Bruce: What do we have coming up in our next few episodes Terry Lipshetz: So what do we have coming up, Bruce, in our next few episodes? Bruce Miller: I know I've got a lot of stuff for you. I've got, a, talk with the producers of Goosebumps. They've rebooted a well, actually, we could put it on this week. We could add it in. I'm doing it tomorrow. I'm talking to one of the actors from Hotel Portofino. Terry Lipshetz: Okay. We can slip that in. Yeah. Bruce Miller: it's Oliver Dench. Now, that name, does that ring a bell? Oliver Dench. Oliver Dench. Terry Lipshetz: That name is it sounds a little. Bruce Miller: It'S her nephew. Yeah. Working. And his dad was a big actor in, yeah. And he's the star of Hotel Portofino. He plays the son who comes back to help run the hotel. So we've got him coming up. I've got a number of films that are opening. But again, we're going to see where we sit if we can solve that actor strike. We're going to talk to some actors. Otherwise, you're going to get some producers. And I know you don't want in. Terry Lipshetz: The worst case scenario, we'll be interviewing dogs barking at us. Bruce Miller: And we'll get the dogs. Terry Lipshetz: We'll get them. Paw patrol coming soon. Bruce Miller: It could be good. I think it could be a good thing. Terry Lipshetz: All right, so we'll go now to an interview with Oliver Dench. And then we will wrap up and see you again next week for another episode of Streamed and Screened. Would you rather do shows in the present or the future Bruce Miller: I look at the things you've done in the past. What period do you really like to be in? do you like to be in the present? Would you rather do shows that are in the present, things in the past, or things in the future? Oliver Dench: It's interesting that I don't really think of the time period that much. When I think of work, obviously it comes into it. And obviously when we're shooting, there are differences like accent or manners or general etiquette of the things. But those aren't really the interesting things to me, I think the things that stay more essential to it, are interpersonal relationships and character. and they transcend time, really, or at least they transcend time in the kind of stuff that I would be doing and the kind of roles I would be interested in playing. I know there would be some really far out there, things really far out there character that could only exist in Sci-Fi. But in terms of the things I've done, I've always played humans. Bruce Miller: That's good, right? Lucian is very guarded in this film. Is that a product of the times or is that yeah Oliver Dench: Yeah, which is good. Bruce Miller: He seems so guarded. Is that a product of the times or is that yeah. Oliver Dench: that is something I have found interesting about this time period in particular. But I think that applies to all characters. I think that one in particular, a lot of what is guarded about Lucian is a product of the times. But that would come up in any period. There would be reasons why people would be suppressing certain aspects of their personality and reasons why other things would be allowed to flourish. The fact that this is happening in the 20s just means there's a different buffet of things to choose from. But he is guarded. There's a lot of pressure on him. Bruce Miller: Did you relate to him at all? Did you say, oh, yeah, I see this, or do you go, no, that's not me at all. Oliver Dench: I've led a much more fortunate life than Lucian. I did not fight in World War I. So I think there's already, like, a massive jump of understanding that I couldn't really realistically, ever hope to, empathize with, but sympathize with. I absolutely can. And I think that's sort of our job as actors. There are a lot of things about Lucian that are different from me, but there's obviously a lot of myself that I bring into the character. And I think this is how I understand these social situations. Now I just have to layer on the different, things that Lucian is dealing with to try and make what I hope is somewhat interesting to watch. You were pulled into the family business and you became an actor Bruce Miller: pulling him into the family business is kind of a thing. Was that the way it was with you, too? You were pulled into the family business and you became an actor? Or was that always something you wanted to do? Oliver Dench: No, that was something well, it wasn't always something I wanted to do. When I was very young, I had an idea that I wanted to be a marine biologist. And I don't know why it seems kind of off the wall, but I've spoken to lots of people I knew, and I think it was very in vogue when I was in my preteens to want to be a marine biologist, because loads of people seem to have this idea. I don't know if it was like a David Attenborough inspired thing or something that was happening on the BBC in the UK at the time. But lots of people I know inexplicably wanted to study jellyfish and things. I didn't end up being a marine biologist. I then wanted to be a chef for a while, but I'm not a massive fan of professional kitchens. When I did, like, the tiniest amount of work experience in, when I crumbled completely ineffectual. But no, I wanted to be an actor. I don't think I was pulled in any particular direction. Bruce Miller: So what appealed to you about it is it just the idea that you get to be different people all the time? Oliver Dench: Well, originally it was more poetic for me, and this hasn't really been, the type of work I've ended up doing, but I think while I wasn't pulled in certain directions, I was very lucky to have the family that I do, and my granddad, who was, a Shakespearean actor, on the stage. I was exposed to a lot of Shakespeare when I was growing up, and I loved that. I thought that was absolutely amazing. So originally, I think it was interest in text that made me want to act, because I thought it was so beautiful. I thought it was amazing. Made me want to write as well. But I think acting seemed, I don't know, more immediate, for me, and that's kind of what pulled me into it. The idea of character almost came secondarily to that, which I don't know if is how many people have kind of come into it. But that was definitely the pull for me. Bruce Miller: Shakespearean, though, come on. I read that, and I can glaze over very quickly, especially at a young age. How do you attach to that? How do you say, like this, even though it's difficult to read? Oliver Dench: Well, I think the first thing is, as everyone kind of says, it's not meant to be read. it must be heard. So if you have someone really skillful doing it, then it's amazing. If you have someone who's not very skillful doing it, then it's the most boring thing. Imagine it's difficult. It is really difficult. but I was lucky to have someone who was skillful at the beginning, sort of explain it to me, and then after that, it becomes, the more you're exposed to it, the more effectively you're able to interpret it. And that's almost a problem in its own right. I think that's often why it's so confusing is because the people who are putting on these plays often are people who are very exposed to it. So the language is very immediate for them. So they watch and they think, what's the problem? I understand every single word. I know it really well. An audience who is maybe not so exposed to it might find it more difficult to interpret. So I think that can be a problem in modern Shakespeare productions. but it is true, once you get into it, the more you read by the time you've read or watched a number of plays in a short span of time, it'll become easy. it just requires doing that work, which is why it's so elitist. It can be really elitist. How difficult is it to memorize Shakespeare? Easier than some other plays Bruce Miller: How difficult is it to memorize? Oliver Dench: Easier. Bruce Miller: Much easier, really. Oliver Dench: It is much easier. Well, again, probably this might not be everyone's experience, and some of the plays are split differently. So some of the early plays are almost entirely verse, which means all the lines have rhythm. Or some of the early plays, almost all the lines have rhyme, which I think is actually really ugly often. and some of the later plays are more prosaic, which means that it's more difficult to learn. But when you're learning a speech and you've got the rhythm and the rhyme to rely on, I actually find that to be a great crutch in memorizing, because, you know, if you've got a single word wrong, when you're memorizing, if you're there going to me that is the question whether noble are in the blah blah blah blah. You understand when it goes, off the tracks. and that lets you know that you've messed up. Whereas some other stuff you can mumble through scenes for pages before you realize you've got everything wrong. Bruce Miller: One of those you have a checklist then, and you start checking off the characters that you want to play. Oliver Dench: I used to, not a physical checklist, but I definitely used to think that the most legitimizing career would be some John Gilgood like thing where you first play Romeo and then Troyless and then Hamlet and then blah, blah, kind. Terry Lipshetz: Of work your way up. Bruce Miller: Yeah. Oliver Dench: Eventually you play Lear and then you die on stage and it'll be, wow, what an incredible experience. but I had to because it wasn't what I was doing. But I sort of let go of that some years ago. Not to say I wouldn't still want to play those parts, but I don't necessarily think they have to be in such a linear progression anymore. I feel as though when I was young, I felt like I was running out of time to play characters that meant something, to me. And in some ways that's true. There'll come a time where I'm less likely to be cast as Romeo. but in general, I think there's such a wealth of characters, not just in Shakespeare, but in everything, in other things that I hadn't really given attention to before, that one could never play everything that is interesting. So doing television does allow you or afford you the opportunity to do theater Bruce Miller: So doing television, does that allow you or afford you the opportunity to do theater? I mean, I'm assuming that it's very difficult to have a career in the theater these days because it isn't as financially viable, as it might be in television or in film. Oliver Dench: Yeah. it still exists in London in quite a big way. I'm not saying that it's not an issue. And, theatre acting in general, tends to be underpaid, mainly because it's, under attended. and that's a problem for people who are trying to kind of carve out a career in theater. I guess, in that aspect, doing TV does let you, does give you more opportunities to kind of wait for theater jobs when they come. But it's also about what you're busy doing. And if you're running in certain circles, like, I haven't had a theater I haven't been meeting theater people in quite a long time because I've been shooting things. And that makes it difficult to have a career in theater because no one knows who I am comparatively. I know lots of people who do theater much more regularly, and they find it more difficult to meet people who are organizing TV jobs is difficult. It's complicated. I think the world is so big and vast now that it's difficult, to always be doing what you want when everything fits. You say the best acting advice is do nothing. What was it like when you first tried to do something on camera Bruce Miller: a Broadway actress told me that when she went to Hollywood, she realized that she was so stiff that she had no emotions because she was afraid she would be too broad on camera. What was it like when you first tried to do something on camera? Was it like, oh, my God, I got to watch, so I'm not, like, blinking. I have to watch. I'm not moving. Oliver Dench: I've been through in the things I've done so far, which is not I'm not the most experienced actor in the world, but in the things I've done so far, I feel like I've come through a cycle of being terrified to do anything and thinking that the best acting advice was do nothing. And if you have an impulse, then squash it, and it's wrong and just be completely plain. And in some cases, that's true. In some cases, oddly, due to some quirk of human psychology, or how we recognize emotion, in some cases, we recognize a blank face as a number of different things, and we laud amazingly subtle performances. But I think it's important to not feel stifled by that. And I'm now at a stage where I think make a crazy choice and do something interesting and, hope that you have the skill that that will still come across as natural. And I think it has to exist somewhere between that, because just doing nothing forever is very stifling when you're on camera and even more stifling when you're on stage. Bruce Miller: It's called soap opera. Right. You do nothing. Right? Yeah. How did American television differ from British, uh, television Bruce Miller: How did American television differ from British, television? this wasn't Pandora. That was an American production. Right? Oliver Dench: That was an American production. Yeah. it doesn't really not essentially about what we're being asked to do. I know it does in a multitude of ways, but I find that very difficult to keep a handle on. Like, I know that the CW who broadcast Pandora want different things than PBS, who are broadcasting, hotel Portofino. I know that they have business plans and they have ideas, but that's, personally, for me, not my favorite way to interpret character and to work on a set. I find that kind of foggying and dizzying and confusing and kind of gets in the way of me feeling comfortable and natural in things. So I think the way I see that is I let the director worry about that. I let the directors and the producers worry about what they're going to do, and I'll just try and be here on set and be as mindful of what I'm doing as possible. And hopefully that fits into what the people around me want. I'm not saying they don't want different things or that it doesn't differ all know, English TV, the BBC is not different from, stars or whatever, but I find it more useful for me to try and concentrate just on the microscopic. You hear about people with huge social media following getting roles Bruce Miller: Well, how does all the social media how does that factor in? Because you hear about people who have this huge social media following, getting roles, and you're thinking, wait a minute, they have no talent. What is this? Oliver Dench: I always think that I don't have any big grudges against people getting cast from things. Not for them personally. Because if they want to do it and someone wants to give them a job, then they're going to do it like anyone would. I don't have a lot of hate for people around me, or even I might have envy sometimes if they get jobs that I want. But the way I feel I kind of thought about social media a lot, but I'm not very good at it. I don't like it. I've never been one to tweet a lot. I have an instagram. I think I tried to delete it, but it's still up there. And I think my last post is from two years ago or something. for a long time, I kind of put a lot of stress on myself to get better at that. And then I realized that I don't really like it. And for me, the social media itself is quite damaging for my mental health. And that might be a good tool for getting cast. I know it helps. I know people want to cast people with big following, but considering I'm not good at that, I shouldn't beat myself up about it, and I should just let that go. When you look at a career, where would you like to see yours go Bruce Miller: So when you look at a career, where would you like to see yours go? What would be the ideal direction for you? Oliver Dench: I'm not really sure. Like I said, when I was younger, I had a much clearer idea of here comes my M. Macbeth. Wonderful. But now, like I was saying earlier, I've realized that things have opened up to such a degree in terms of the style of things I would be playing that, I find it much more difficult to predict that. I hope I am working. And I hope I am happy. But I'd much rather think about my mental health being high, my own positivity being high, and me enjoying the work that I do and finding it interesting than I would think about, exactly where I'm going to be. Because my experience has been that whenever I imagine a job in a certain way, it doesn't always line up with, the way I expect my well being, the, place I expect my well being to be at. When I have that job, it's very easy to think when I get a TV job, I'll be very happy. And I don't think that's how my happiness has always moved. So as long as I find it interesting, then, and I'm working, then that'll. Bruce Miller: Be do you plan know, I always need to go back to the theater because that's where I feel most welcome, or is that because didn't you do Cabaret this last? Yeah. Oliver Dench: Yeah, I loved it. I love that show. I was very lucky to do Cabaret this year. in terms of my career, the question that you actually asked me before I started Rambling is, I would like to be doing a mix of things. I would like my career to be continuously mixed. I would like to do some theater and some screen work. I would like to write. I find the variation to be spicy and interesting and exciting. and I find that thrilling. I think that's what I want out of a career rather than something I don't have a particular magnetism back to the theater, and that's where I want to spend my time forever. I just want it to be varied and interesting and satisfying. Bruce Miller: Do you look at your great aunt's career? I mean, come on. She's had the most varied career of anybody. Do you look at that like a, template for something like this? Oliver Dench: Yeah, it would be unbelievable. But few people have a career as. Bruce Miller: Amazing as come on. Yeah, right. But look, she did Cabaret, for God's sake. Oliver Dench: Yes, she did, famously, very well. Bruce Miller: But you did too, so go for it, they say. Oliver Dench: But no, I absolutely if I could have a career that's half as wonderful as that, I'd be very happy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Economic abuse was officially recognised under the Domestic Abuse Act in 2021, yet a new study from the charity Surviving Economic Abuse suggests victims are still being let down by the police and the courts. Their CEO Nicola Sharp-Jeffs joins to tell us more about their findings, alongside ITV broadcaster Ruth Dodsworth who shares her own personal experience. On Tuesday's programme, the Conservative MP for Don Valley, Nick Fletcher, championed the idea of a Minister for Men. He says statistics show that 75% of people taking their lives are men, that the life expectancy of men is 3.7 years lower than it is for women, that 83% of rough sleepers are men. On Wednesday we heard your views - could a Minister help tackle some of the issues many young men seem to be struggling with, such as masculinity, pornography, consent and their role in society? Could a Minister for Men also make life better for women? And could it be a way to tackle the rise of influencers such as Andrew Tate – a self-declared misogynist? Have you ever been in a 'situationship'? It's sort of a relationship but you're not exclusive. It's the subject of the debut novel of Taylor-Dior Rumble. The Situationship is published by Merky Books and it's been termed the label's first Rom-Com. Rebuilding My Life series: When Martine Wright was rescued from the wreckage of a bombed Tube train on what became known as 7/7, her injuries were so severe that she could not be identified. Both her legs were amputated above the knee. 18 years on, Martine speaks about her road to recovery, physically and emotionally. Is Belfast the new city of love? Well, it's the backdrop to new Sky Atlantic romcom The Lovers, which follows local supermarket worker Janet and her love affair with English TV presenter, Seamus O'Hannigan who has a whole other life, and a girlfriend, back in London. Roisin Gallagher, who plays Janet, talks about filming in her hometown and the changing perceptions of Northern Ireland's capital. Presenter; Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Sarah Crawley

Economic abuse was officially recognised under the Domestic Abuse Act in 2021, yet a new study from the charity Surviving Economic Abuse suggests victims are still being let down by the police and the courts. Their CEO Nicola Sharp-Jeffs joins to tell us more about their findings, alongside ITV broadcaster Ruth Dodsworth who shares her own personal experience. What would you do if you weren't afraid? That is the question Michal Oshman is asking in her latest book. As the former Head of Company Culture at TikTok and International Leadership Development Executive at Facebook, she is no stranger to success. But Michal says that she has spent most of her life hiding anxiety and fear under this success - and uses her book to explore how we can all replace uncertainty with purpose for a better life. She joins Anita Rani to discuss. You might have seen in the papers and online that the actress Sophie Turner and the singer Joe Jonas are getting divorced. The couple met back in 2016 on Instagram, and were married a year later. They have two daughters together, but earlier this week released a joint statement saying they have 'mutually decided to amicably end' their marriage. However, TMZ reported that a source claimed that they had very different lifestyles. Sophie Likes to party, while Jo stays at home, they reported. Olivia-Anne Cleary is a senior editor and writer who felt compelled to write an article about it for Glamour magazine, Can We Please Stop Mum Shaming. She joins Anita to discuss. When you think of traditional barbershop singers you probably think of men. But there are just as many female acapella singing groups as male. The Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers has around 60 clubs as members. And Mountain Harmony Chorus, the only one in Wales, wrote to Woman's Hour during Listener Week, inviting us to one of their rehearsals. We hear from our reporter Melanie Abbott who went along. Is Belfast the new city of love? Well it's the backdrop to new Sky Atlantic romcom, The Lovers, which follows local supermarket worker Janet and her love affair with English TV presenter, Seamus O'Hannigan who has a whole other life, and a girlfriend, back in London. Roisin Gallagher, who plays Janet, joins Anita to talk about filming in her hometown and changing perceptions of Northern Ireland's capital. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Hanna Ward Studio Manager: Bob Nettles

From Carol Drinkwater, the beloved star of the English TV show. All Creatures Great And Small comes a heart-wrenching World War II romance about a French village that opened its arms as the Nazis closed in Hi, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler. And Carol, our Binge Reading guest author today, is well known for her series of bestsellers about her life on an olive farm in Provence, made into a series of popular nonfiction books and a TV show called Carol Drinkwater's Secret Provence. But Carol also writes fiction and her latest novel An Act of Love is based on a true story that took place in a mountain village not far from where she lives. It's a fascinating story. Links to items mentioned in the show: All Creatures Great and Small TV show (2020 Version) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10590066/ 1978 Series  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_(1978_TV_series) Carol Drinkwater's Olive Farm series: http://www.caroldrinkwater.com/gallery/mediterranean_gallery.htm http://www.caroldrinkwater.com/books/theolivefarm Carol Drinkwater's Secret Provence Tv series (All different areas have different providers – search your location...) https://www.channel5.com/show/a-year-in-provence-with-carol-drinkwater/ Or Prime:  https://www.primevideo.com/hp/video/detail/Carol-Drinkwaters-Secret-Provence/0KPNV7QZY4K2Q0U3FI9AOLF1HE You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmi4nFcUuHiBZSZXVzB79ghqqwgWm_kR_ Occupied and Free France in World War II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France# Golden Pennies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222566/ James Herriot penname – real name James Alf Wight  https://www.jamesherriot.org/life-and-times/ Beyond Borders Film Festival: https://beyondborders.gr/en/ https://filmfreeway.com/BeyondBorderInternationalFilmFestival Companion Piece – Ali Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Piece-Novel-Ali-Smith/dp/0593316371 Seasonal Quartet: Spring and Winter, Ali Smith:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40545817-spring Oh William, Elizabeth Strout: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56294820 Where to find Carol Drinkwater Online Website: http://www.caroldrinkwater.com/ Book Giveaway - Ultimate Reacher Swag Pack $550 in value - two winners - includes Reacher Jacker and 30 books by other thriller authors Book Giveaway: In our Book Giveaway this week, something for Jack Reacher fans or the men in their lives. Only for a Limited Time so enter now! A Booksweeps promotion featuring Reacher swag - a swag pack and book basket containing essential merchandise to add to your collection. Plus 30 awesome books by best-selling and award-winning authors perfect for Reacher fans and fans of the show. https://bit.ly/reacher-may2023 (in case button doesn't work) enter booksweeps Ultimate reacher And remember, if you enjoy Binge Reading, leave us a review so others will find us too. Word of mouth is the best way for others to discover the show and great books they will love to read. But now here's Carol Hello there. Carolyn. Welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Introducing author Carol Drinkwater Carol Drinkwater: Oh, it's an honor. Hello? Hello, New Zealand. TV actress and best selling author Carol Drinkwater Jenny Wheeler: We should start by establishing our geographical location. As you've mentioned, I'm in New Zealand, and where are you for our listeners benefit? Carol Drinkwater: At the moment, I'm in the south of France overlooking the Bay of Cannes. Jenny Wheeler: Beautiful. Now that's on your olive farm, is it? Carol Drinkwater: That's our olive farm. Indeed. Yes. We have two homes in France. One is in the north outside Paris, and the south is the olive farm. Jenny Wheeler: Wonderful. You've had a fantastic career. You started out with a wonderful career in tv, including a starring role on a famous show of a few years ago now.

Happy Anniversary to us, 2023 Rock & Roll Hall inductees, Jackson Mahomes arrested, Jamie Foxx's mystery illness, Britney Spears' tit pic, Trump on the Royal Family, Gwyneth Paltrow's past dongs, 90's music is the best, frosted tips, and another YouTube antagonizer. Milestones: Our YouTube hits 7500 subs in the first 7 years 2 months. It is our 7-year anniversary! Pray for Jamie Foxx. No one knows what's wrong with him... but pray for him. He allegedly "wrote" this breaking his silence. Nick Cannon is taking his Beat Shazam gig. Geoffrey Fieger is recovering from his stroke. ML recently did a piece on the attorney. Dana Nessel takes awesome legal and highly unethical tropical trips paid for by Traverse City lawyers/donors. Music: 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class. Tons of snubs! Drew is really into Johnny Depp's vocals. Anybody in the mood for Al Stewart? Jackson Mahomes has finally been arrested for sexual battery. Richard Simmons needs to make a comeback. Texas Massacre shooter Francisco Oropesa has been arrested. Politricks: The White House doesn't want to talk about Joe Biden's bastard grandchild. Apparently there is some whistleblower out there exposing Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is coming to town. He's not even thinking about that E. Jean Carroll thing. Trump gave an interview to English TV and slammed Meghan Markle along the way. Britney Spears decided to post her boobs on Instagram. Her first husband, Jason Alexander, has remarried. Happy horse execution season! The Kentucky Derby is this weekend. We randomly say Dannielynn Birkhead's name... so we have to try and call Bobby Trendy. Mark McGrath is among the many stars who rocked frosted tips. Jack Nicholson finally showed his face in public. He looks better than the paparazzi photos. Bad news for Brad Falchuk as Gwyneth Paltrow went on Call Her Daddy to talk about nailing everybody that isn't her husband. Ed Sheeran is skipping his grandma's funeral to try and win his Marvin Gaye case. He promises to quit music if he loses the case. Kevin Costner's wife files for divorce. Some people are saying she's banging Cal Ripken Jr. Maria Menounos has been battling cancer. Gordon Chaffin doesn't mess with people in the bike lane. P.K. Subban made a joke at Lizzo's expense and the obese singer is angry. P.K. is trying to change the narrative with a hell of an excuse. Steve Martin has a new audiobook out. Hollywood writers are on strike. Rob Lowe is proud of his nepo-baby. Barstool Sports are not fans of James Corden. Music in the 90's was the best. Drew is still stuck in the 60's. Thanks for sticking with us for 7 years. Visit Our Presenting Sponsor Hall Financial – Michigan's highest rated mortgage company If you'd like to help support the show… please consider subscribing to our YouTube Page, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon). Or don't, whatever.

The Squiz is your shortcut to the news. More details and links to further reading for all of today's news can be found in The Squiz Today email. Click here to get it in your inbox each weekday morning. You can find out more about The English TV series here. Other things we do: Squiz Shortcuts - a weekly explainer on big news topics Squiz Kids - a news podcast for curious kids. Age-appropriate news without the nasties!

English TV shows can be a great way to learn English, but did you know there are a few things you can do before you watch the show that will help you learn even more while watching, and make the show more understandable and enjoyable?In this English lesson I'll show you seven things you should be before you even hit the play button. Each of these things will help you get ready to watch the show so that your mind is ready to absorb as much English as possible.I hope you enjoy this English class about what to do before you watch a TV series in English! Have a great day!Note: This is the audio portion of a Youtube English lesson which you can watch right  here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zpDblg9k4 or find by searching Youtube for, "Bob the Canadian TV Series"Support the show

Netflix's Wednesday was possibly one of the most anticipated releases this year owing to the immense popularity of The Addams Family. The series premiered last week on November 23 with Jenna Ortega playing the titular character of Wednesday Addams. The show has received several positive reviews and has reportedly broken a Netflix viewing record. The show made it to the top of the list of the most viewed hours of a Netflix debut for an English TV series with 341.2 million hours viewed in its first week of release, breaking the record previously held by Stranger Things.

Charley Boorman is an English TV presenter, travel writer and actor. As a noted motorbike enthusiast, Boorman is widely known for a series of three long distance motorcycle rides with friend Ewan McGregor, documented in Long Way Round, Long Way Down, and Long Way Up. Charley is in conversation with Steve Parrish, so be prepared for some lively conversation!

Before New Zealand director Peter Jackson became world famous for his Lord of the Rings trilogy, he had a cult following for directing a few horror and zombie films that featured wild special effects and stop-motion animation. Then in 1994, at age 32, Jackson showed that he could handle a movie with wider significance and appeal. That film was Heavenly Creatures, a story based on a notorious murder case from the early 1950s in Christchurch, New Zealand. As was to be the case in all his future work, Jackson wrote the screenplay with his wife, Fran Walsh. This was the film that fascinated me when I first saw it in 1995, and then quickly went to see it again. After the picture establishes its time and place with part of an actual 1954 newsreel about Christchurch, we meet Pauline Rieper, a lonely and painfully self-conscious teenage girl played by 16-year-old newcomer Melanie Lynskey. Her parents and siblings don't understand why Pauline is always so angry and withdrawn, although we in the audience can sense that the difficult and confusing effects of puberty clearly play a role. Ignored by her classmates at a girls' school, and disliked by teachers, Pauline is bewildered about her life, an experience well conveyed through Jackson's bold camera effects and frenetic editing. Then, an English girl arrives at the school, Juliet Hulme, played by the 17-year-old Kate Winslet. Vivacious, imaginative, and boldly rebellious, Juliet immediately captivates Pauline, and reaches out to her in friendship, which the shy girl responds to with all the repressed passion of her soul. Winslet had previously appeared on English TV, but this was her first role in a movie. She and Lynskey give powerful, revelatory performances. The bond between Pauline and Juliet quickly becomes rather intense. Pauline introduces her friend to the music of her idol, the tenor Mario Lanza. Their enmeshment expresses itself in imaginative play-acting: they pretend to be fantasy heroines in a mythical kingdom, giving themselves different names and acting out little stories. Here Jackson introduces his animation techniques—large “claymation” type figures dancing, singing, and embracing the girls in the courtyard of a medieval castle. The girls' fantasies not only celebrate their bond, but express anger and hostility towards authority figures who try to discipline them. The trouble starts when Juliet's father feels disturbed by how involved the two girls are in each other. He thinks it's unhealthy, and he tells Pauline's mother that. Both sets of parents try to discourage the friendship in various ways, but of course this only makes the attachment stronger and more determined. When the Hulmes decide to move back to England, Juliet and Pauline think they're being persecuted. Faced with the unthinkable prospect of separation, their fragile minds go over the edge. Heavenly Creatures is a fever dream of a movie. Sometimes it seems like you can barely catch your breath with Jackson's relentless, flamboyant style, funny at first but ultimately tragic. No film that I've seen has captured the insanity of adolescence, the inability to see a future in the pressure of today, than this film has. Heavenly Creatures' remarkable compassion for its misguided characters brings us to painful and unforgettable awareness.

Today we look at some advanced English vocabulary. You know the sort of English words and phrases that turn up in newspaper and magazine articles? There is a common problem, where English language learners who understand most spoken and written English, find radio and TV news, newspapers and magazines hard to comprehend. If you want to understand the English news, this podcast English lesson is a great place to start. English TV, Radio News Phrases That Everyone Should Be Able To Understand ✔Lesson transcript: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-phrases-news-vocabulary/ So lets take an interesting newspaper article about uni students staying home because of the cost-of-living crisis in the UK. I will read out the article, identify any tricky phrases or idioms, explain the spelling and vocabulary in a full breakdown of the English used. Of course the newspaper article itself is interesting and worth listening to! English Pronunciation Course Discount Code = HALFOFF Listen & Learn English Consonants Pronunciation Course: https://adeptenglish.com/language-courses/listen-and-learn-english-consonants-pronunciation-course/ This lesson will help you level up your English comprehension so you can follow the news in English. We have lots and lots of other free English lessons focused on phrases, idioms and listening comprehension practice here on our adeptenglish.com website. We also have some outstanding English courses designed to help you with your English language learning to use exactly the same listen and learn method you will listen to today. So take a look here. You never know, it might be the push you needed to get your English fluency. News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. ⭐ Lord Northcliffe This change in the type of English language used is because news and magazines writers often use idioms and phrases to imply a meaning or an idea to make content engaging. They need to entertain the reader/listeners to make money! It's the type of English you avoid in everyday conversations, because you would sound very stuffy and formal, and you probably don't want your audience to work too hard understanding what you are trying to communicate. Learn more about our courses here: https://adeptenglish.com/language-courses/ Adept English is here to help with FREE English lessons and language courses that are unique, modern and deliver results. You can learn to speak English quickly using our specialised brain training. We get straight to the point of how you should learn to speak English. We teach you in a fun and simple way that delivers results. If you want to learn to speak English, our approach to learning through listening will improve your English fluency.

Stay tuned for some epic beats by producer Simphiwe on Fancy New Band, and for some non English TV show and movie recommendations during the second hour :) Highlight recommendations: City of Lost Children, Hometown Chachacha, and Skritek!

Stay tuned for some epic beats by producer Simphiwe on Fancy New Band, and for some non English TV show and movie recommendations during the second hour :) Highlight recommendations: City of Lost Children, Hometown Chachacha, and Skritek!

Dean Holden & Danielle NichollsIn this week's podcast, we get to talk to married couple Dean Holden and Danielle Nicholls. Danielle is an English TV presenter, radio host, model, and singer, best known for presenting on CITV. Dean is an ex-professional footballer and the current first-team assistant manager at Stoke City having previously managed Bristol City. Together they have five children. Danielle and Dean faced every parent's worst nightmare with the loss of their 17-month-old daughter Cici.We speak to Dean and Daniel aboutTheir careersTransitioning from working to becoming a Mum and then being a working mumDealing with tragedy Grief Moving forwardsFor more information on The Summit Foundation please visit our website www.thesummitfoundation.co.uk or on socials thesummit_fdn thanks for listening.Audio production by airaphonSupport the show

This is no joyride! English TV personality Ant Anstead launched a bitter custody battle yesterday against his ex, Flip or Flop host Christina Hall. Ant is seeking full custody of their two-year-old son, Hudson. He claims Christina's an absent mom and puts Hudson's health at risk. But Christina's clapping back, and says Ant's just playing dirty to hurt her. So is this just about bad blood between Ant and Christina? We just want what's best for little Hudson!Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Remember the British Invasion?  Young fans across America were obsessed with English music, English TV shows, and English sensibilities.  How about the Asian Invasion, which was the same thing but with Japan?  It seems like young people are always going to be intrigued by the foreign.  Right now that foreign entity is Korea, with its K-Pop and Korean dramas.  And people get very upset when you don't know exactly what they're talking about when they ask if you heard what Ko Yu-rim said to Na Hee-do in episode 3 of Seumuldaseot Seumulhana.  And yes, if you're wondering, I did pull all those names from Google. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm a curious person and in this English lesson I have four questions that I want to ask you! As you learn English it is important to read books, listen to music, and watch TV and movies. I want to know what you're reading, listening to, and watching! Please use this form to send in your responses: https://forms.gle/SdZR2wh4sWt4hCM56 I'm sure that a lot of other people would be interested in this information as well, so in this video I'm going to share what I'm currently reading, listening to, and watching, and then I'll ask you what you're up to! Once I've received the results I'll compile all the answers and make another video to let you know the most popular books, songs, TV shows, and movies.Reading in English, listening to English music, and watching English TV and movies all have their unique advantages as you study this fun language.Let's share what we're doing so others know!Please use this form to let me know what you are listening to, reading, and watching: https://forms.gle/SdZR2wh4sWt4hCM56Note: This is the audio portion of a Youtube English lesson which you can watch right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygai3B7Q_WE or find by searching Youtube for, "Bob the Canadian What Are You Listening To?"Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)

Veronica and Tom discover why horror is like cheese. Plus the reason a German book is being made into an English TV show by Germans. And our spoilery final thoughts on NOS4A2 by Joe Hill!

Tyler records an emergency pod reacting to the USMNT win in Honduras. Arlo is back from Greece and there's a debate if he's burned or tanned (20:03). Weston McKennie is sent home from USMNT WCQs (24:07). How many points does CFFC need to make the playoffs (36:24)? Why Miguel Navarro settling in can help the Fire (39:17). Cristiano Ronaldo's debut will be missed by millions of fans due to an old English TV rule (49:20). The Premier League vs FIFA and every other international federation sparks a debate (54:06). How can Mikel Arteta survive if Arsenal loses this weekend (1:00:59)? What Arlo is watching when Leeds plays Liverpool (1:03:13). My Side of the Pond: Arlo is tired of boring World Cup Qualifiers, pitch invaders, and Tyler is tired of American clubs wanting to be global brands (1:06:52).   Follow Arlo & Tyler!Twitter:https://twitter.com/arlowhite https://twitter.com/TNTerens

It's not uncommon for two people to share the same first and last names – and the only detail that doesn't make their birth certificates identical is the difference in their middle names. Did you know that Hollywood actor Chris Evans shares his name with an equally popular English TV and radio personality? Two different “Michelle Williams'” made it big in show business – one as an Oscar-nominated actress; the other as a former member of the chart-busting singing trio “Destiny's Child.” And American Adam Scott makes waves as a TV comedian while an Australian Adam Scott was the world's number one-ranked professional golfer in 2014. But what are the odds that two women sharing the same name, physically resembling each other, and living in the same county would both suffer the same tragic deaths just four days apart from each other?

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases HARD TO FOLLOW and TO FOLLOW IN SOMEONE'S FOOTSTEPSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "hard to follow." Hard to follow simply means that something is hard to understand or it's hard to keep track of what's happening when you're watching something or reading something or when someone is talking to you. Hopefully, when you watch my videos, they're not hard to follow. Hopefully, they are easy to understand. I know sometimes when you watch an English movie or English TV show, it might be hard to follow. You might have to pause and rewind and maybe turn the subtitles on every once in a while, because sometimes people just speak too quickly and it's hard to follow.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is "to follow in someone's footsteps." When you follow in someone's footsteps, it means you do the same thing as they do. Usually this is between generations, like when children do the same job as their mom or dad, we say that they are following in their footsteps. Often, this happens on farms. Often, farms are taken over by the next generation. Sometimes the son or daughter of a farmer will follow in their parents' footsteps and they will do the same thing as their parents. They will also become farmers.So to review, not sure I explained this one good enough, but when something is hard to follow, it's simply hard to understand. Again, I really hope my videos aren't too hard to follow. I hope they are easy for you to understand. And when you follow in someone's footsteps, it usually means that you do the same thing as an older family member. Sometimes grandkids will follow in the footsteps of their grandparents. Maybe their grandfather was a mechanic and one of the grandkids has decided to become a mechanic as well. We would say that they are going to follow in their grandfather's footsteps.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I think, Yellow DQ 1989. And the comment is this. "You just need a Clarkson's Lamborghini tractor." And my response was, "That would be amazing. I love that show. So fun to watch."So what Yellow is talking about is a show on Amazon Prime called "Clarkson's Farm." "Clarkson's Farm" stars Jeremy Clarkson. He was a presenter on "Top Gear" and "The Grand Tour," an automotive show, for a very long time. I think he still does "The Grand Tour" but he also has a little show now called "Clarkson's Farm" where he farms in England and he has a tractor that's made by Lamborghini. A very cool tractor. I'm assuming it's made by some of my Italian friends in Italy. And he is just learning how to be a farmer on his big farm. Maybe I should have a Lamborghini tractor.I'm not sure if you can see my tractor down there. My big tractor is also broken. I have two broken tractors right now. My small tractor and my big one. So hopefully the repairman comes to fix my big tractor. It's down there in the field. It's really little. Maybe I'll try to zoom in on it when I edit this video. Hopefully the repair person, hopefully the tractor mechanic comes today and he's able to fix that one. The tire on my other tractor is still not repaired. I have to go get that later today. Hopefully, within a couple of days, both my tractors are working again, but it's not a rush.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)

Vous avez du mal à comprendre vos séries et films préférés en anglais ? Ne vous découragez pas. Peut-être qu'il suffirait simplement de modifier légèrement votre approche. Dans cet épsiode du Déclic Anglais Podcast, nous allons explorer une technique qui vous permettra d'améliorer votre compréhension de l'anglais oral, et surtout de mieux comprendre vos séries préférées en VO ! Cliquez ici pour télécharger la transcription.  -------------------------  Pour toute question ou remarque, n'hésitez pas à nous écrire à l'adresse contact@declicanglais.com  Notre site : www.declicanglais.com  Retrouvez-nous aussi sur : Facebook / Instagram  ------------------------   Soundtrack credits: Kevin Hartnell: Podcast Theme, album: CC BY-SA 4.0, Overlook Hotel Records.  Lindsay Tomasic: Future Perfect U/S, album: Mostly Acoustic, Soundcast Music

In this episode, the boys discuss English TV, Palm Springs, Greenland and The Bad Batch

Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of B​orussia Dortmund's life by talking to experts and former participants of the club's life. People like players, fans and journalists who have covered the club and decision-makers and experts who know the world of all our club well. The aim of the podcast is to make this wonderful football club more accessible to non-German speakers. The podcast may also be of interest to German football fans who want to learn or practice English. The UEFA Champions League is back our BVB plays Sevilla FC so time to get a view on the 6 time Europaleague winners  Well-known in England for winning the FA Cup with both Everton (1995) and Tottenham Hotspurs Vinny Samways (1991) played for Sevilla FC in season 02-03 and for Las Palmas between 1996-02 as well as playing with Wolves and Birmingham City. Samways has been active in Spanish football for the last twenty years as a player agent and is also a football pundit on Spanish television and is based in Malaga.  1. Current season Sevilla lie in fourth place in the table and have won the last five games and conceded only 16 goals. What can be expected from BVB's opponents in the two-legged tie? Who are the key players? What are the main strengths and weaknesses of the side? The key danger men in the line-up and how will Sevilla line-up against the BVB team? Vinny's view on the current Borussia Dortmund team and Predictions for the game. 2. Sevilla football club what makes the club special, the history, achievements, traditions, the stadium, local rivalry with Real Betis. 3. Samways season in 02/03 at the Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium playing alongside Dani Alves. 4. Career in the English Premier League with Spurs winning the FA Cups on 91 alongside Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker in a team managed by later Barcelona manager Terry Venables.  5. Recollections of legendary Sevilla and Arsenal striker Jose-Antonio Reyes. 6. Predictions for the game and expectations of both teams.  It was of course Michael not David Robinson who was the English TV pundit and former Real Osasuna player. We hope you enjoy the show, remember to send us your comments, share the show with friends and to apply for tickets contact the club via the website which is borussiadortmundlondon.co.uk or join the London BvB community at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.   During the season you can also come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar, just off Oxford Street, in Cleveland street central London.   All rights reserved Borussia Dortmund London Ltd 2020.

English TV star Sabra Williams landed in LA with a new career path in mind. And then landed in prison — as an acting teacher. With the encouragement of an Oscar-winning actor, she’s bringing workshops to cell blocks — offering help, hope, and change to those who need it most.Learn more about Sabra’s work online: CreativeActs.us Follow Sabra on Twitter: @sabraarbasListen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. Tell us what’s making you smile! Send a voice memo to smile@wondery.com Our theme song is “Smile” by Ryan Innes--Support us by supporting our sponsors!Make your mental health a priority! For 10% off your first month, go to BetterHelp.com/DAILYSMILE

‘Ahead of the pack,' ‘smooth sailing,' ‘corner the market.' English is full of idioms like these three I just mentioned. In order to be able to work, study, or live in a native English speaking environment, understanding and comprehending idioms is a vital skill! For that reason, this episode will introduce you to some common idioms that are especially useful for business situations. However, they will also be beneficial to anyone who wants to study abroad, understand English TV shows or movies, or even just enjoys studying languages! TRANSCRIPT!! - https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2020/11/29/incredibly-useful-english-idioms-ideal-for-business-english-ielts-study-abroad-and-more-english-vocabulary-lesson/ Contact Us!! INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/) Twitter - @thinkenglishpod Blog - thinkinginenglish.blog Gmail - thinkinginenglishpod@gmail.com Vocabulary To accelerate (v) - to move more quickly, or to make something happen faster or sooner He accelerated rapidly to pass a car! Glitch (n) - a small problem or fault that prevents something from being successful or working as well as it should The system has been plagued with glitches ever since its launch! Initiative (n) - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem The government launched their new education initiative last week! To blink (v) - when you blink, you close and then open your eyes quickly once or several times, and when an eye blinks, it does this You've got something in your eye - try blinking a few times! Standard (n) - a level of quality This essay is not of an acceptable standard - do it again! Manufacturer (n) - a company that produces goods in large numbers Japan is a major manufacturer of vehicles! Towering (adj) - very high or very great The baseball player hit a towering home run! Howling (adj) - (of wind) blowing hard and making a lot of noise The hurricane's howling winds just missed the island! Gale (n) - a very strong wind Hundreds of old trees were blown down in the gales! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thinking-english/message

From earthquake in Andaman Islands to popular English TV show Friends reunion being rescheduled, we have handpicked the top news updates that were skipped by the mainstream media today. Here are the most important stories that were #LostInTheClutter. Download the app to read more such overlooked stories. Download app: https://bit.ly/32gH2vp

Episode 11 -In this episode Don talks about working with actors and DPs. Another very Director-centric episode- here he shares his experiences with- diva actors, so called trained actors n non actors. Working with CYNTHIA KOH for the first time in a Mandarin language drama. Discussing about building that trust between the director and actors. 'Working the ‘magic’. Being impressed with a young inexperienced JABU DEEN and see how he has developed so far. He also shares his varied experience working with DP SHYAN and DP MICHAEL ZAW. I have known Don since 2015 on the set of ***Tanglin***. It was Singapore's longest English TV long form series- running at more than 800 plus (half hr) episodes and it had a number of directors on board. And we were part of that. Super ep. Enjoy.

Write out your monthly goals in English. 用英语写下你本月的目标。Order your coffee in English. 用英语点你的咖啡。Listen to a song in English and try to write down your favorite part of the song, in English. 用英语听一首歌，然后用英语写下你最喜欢的歌词部分。Listen to a podcast in English. 听一个英语播客。Download an app (like Duolingual) to practice vocabulary daily. 下载一个app每天练习你的词汇。Write an email in English and screenshot it. 用英语写email，并截图下来。Translate the morning's headlines to English. 用英语翻译今天的头条新闻的标题。Write a social media (WeChat) post in English, introducing yourself. 用英语发一篇自我介绍在你的微信朋友圈Message someone in English for 5 minutes.用英语聊天五分钟。Pick your favorite meme and post it here. 找到你最喜欢的英语搞笑图片，然后张贴在这里。Quiz yourself on the English translation of items while walking through your supermarket, then post what you found here. 当走过超市给自己一个英语的翻译训练，用英语告诉我们你看到了什么。Journal about your day in English. 用英语记录下今天发生的事。Read a news article in English. 读一篇英语写的文章。Learn some common English phrases about love. 学一些关于爱的句子。Go to an English language exchange website and start exchanging your language with others. 上一个英语语言交换的网站和别人交换你的语言。Watch a popular English TV episode (examples: Friends, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother) and write a summary of what happened. 看一些有名的英语电视剧，然后写下你看到了什么。Write down everything you see, in English, during your commute (or lunch break) 用英语写下你通勤时或午休所看到的所有事情。Label the items in your apartment with their English name. 用英语标示你公寓里所有的东西。Create five English flashcards for your most commonly used and forgotten words and phrases. 制作5张常用单词和你常忘记的单词的闪示卡。Create a list with five your favorite English words. 写下5个你最喜欢的英语单词。Learn four quick facts (in English) about your favorite English-speaking countries. 学习四个有关你最喜欢的英语国家的事实！Start following an English website (twitter account) of your favorite foreign celebrity. 开始关注你最喜欢的外国明星的英语网站(微博）。Order your meal in English. 用英语点餐。Commit to study at least 10 minutes in English everyday. Submit your vow here. 下定决心每天学习英语十分钟。在这里写下你的挑战书。Find and write down a quote in English. 找一条英语格言并把它写下来。Make a shopping list in English. 用英语写下你的购物清单。Go old school and write out difficult vocabulary words and their definitions, five times each. 用古老的方式，抄写五个困难的字汇各五次Change your phone's and computer's language to English. 把你的手机和电脑的语言转换成英语

Write out your monthly goals in English. 用英语写下你本月的目标。Order your coffee in English. 用英语点你的咖啡。Listen to a song in English and try to write down your favorite part of the song, in English. 用英语听一首歌，然后用英语写下你最喜欢的歌词部分。Listen to a podcast in English. 听一个英语播客。Download an app (like Duolingual) to practice vocabulary daily. 下载一个app每天练习你的词汇。Write an email in English and screenshot it. 用英语写email，并截图下来。Translate the morning's headlines to English. 用英语翻译今天的头条新闻的标题。Write a social media (WeChat) post in English, introducing yourself. 用英语发一篇自我介绍在你的微信朋友圈Message someone in English for 5 minutes.用英语聊天五分钟。Pick your favorite meme and post it here. 找到你最喜欢的英语搞笑图片，然后张贴在这里。Quiz yourself on the English translation of items while walking through your supermarket, then post what you found here. 当走过超市给自己一个英语的翻译训练，用英语告诉我们你看到了什么。Journal about your day in English. 用英语记录下今天发生的事。Read a news article in English. 读一篇英语写的文章。Learn some common English phrases about love. 学一些关于爱的句子。Go to an English language exchange website and start exchanging your language with others. 上一个英语语言交换的网站和别人交换你的语言。Watch a popular English TV episode (examples: Friends, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother) and write a summary of what happened. 看一些有名的英语电视剧，然后写下你看到了什么。Write down everything you see, in English, during your commute (or lunch break) 用英语写下你通勤时或午休所看到的所有事情。Label the items in your apartment with their English name. 用英语标示你公寓里所有的东西。Create five English flashcards for your most commonly used and forgotten words and phrases. 制作5张常用单词和你常忘记的单词的闪示卡。Create a list with five your favorite English words. 写下5个你最喜欢的英语单词。Learn four quick facts (in English) about your favorite English-speaking countries. 学习四个有关你最喜欢的英语国家的事实！Start following an English website (twitter account) of your favorite foreign celebrity. 开始关注你最喜欢的外国明星的英语网站(微博）。Order your meal in English. 用英语点餐。Commit to study at least 10 minutes in English everyday. Submit your vow here. 下定决心每天学习英语十分钟。在这里写下你的挑战书。Find and write down a quote in English. 找一条英语格言并把它写下来。Make a shopping list in English. 用英语写下你的购物清单。Go old school and write out difficult vocabulary words and their definitions, five times each. 用古老的方式，抄写五个困难的字汇各五次Change your phone's and computer's language to English. 把你的手机和电脑的语言转换成英语

Write out your monthly goals in English. 用英语写下你本月的目标。Order your coffee in English. 用英语点你的咖啡。Listen to a song in English and try to write down your favorite part of the song, in English. 用英语听一首歌，然后用英语写下你最喜欢的歌词部分。Listen to a podcast in English. 听一个英语播客。Download an app (like Duolingual) to practice vocabulary daily. 下载一个app每天练习你的词汇。Write an email in English and screenshot it. 用英语写email，并截图下来。Translate the morning's headlines to English. 用英语翻译今天的头条新闻的标题。Write a social media (WeChat) post in English, introducing yourself. 用英语发一篇自我介绍在你的微信朋友圈Message someone in English for 5 minutes.用英语聊天五分钟。Pick your favorite meme and post it here. 找到你最喜欢的英语搞笑图片，然后张贴在这里。Quiz yourself on the English translation of items while walking through your supermarket, then post what you found here. 当走过超市给自己一个英语的翻译训练，用英语告诉我们你看到了什么。Journal about your day in English. 用英语记录下今天发生的事。Read a news article in English. 读一篇英语写的文章。Learn some common English phrases about love. 学一些关于爱的句子。Go to an English language exchange website and start exchanging your language with others. 上一个英语语言交换的网站和别人交换你的语言。Watch a popular English TV episode (examples: Friends, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother) and write a summary of what happened. 看一些有名的英语电视剧，然后写下你看到了什么。Write down everything you see, in English, during your commute (or lunch break) 用英语写下你通勤时或午休所看到的所有事情。Label the items in your apartment with their English name. 用英语标示你公寓里所有的东西。Create five English flashcards for your most commonly used and forgotten words and phrases. 制作5张常用单词和你常忘记的单词的闪示卡。Create a list with five your favorite English words. 写下5个你最喜欢的英语单词。Learn four quick facts (in English) about your favorite English-speaking countries. 学习四个有关你最喜欢的英语国家的事实！Start following an English website (twitter account) of your favorite foreign celebrity. 开始关注你最喜欢的外国明星的英语网站(微博）。Order your meal in English. 用英语点餐。Commit to study at least 10 minutes in English everyday. Submit your vow here. 下定决心每天学习英语十分钟。在这里写下你的挑战书。Find and write down a quote in English. 找一条英语格言并把它写下来。Make a shopping list in English. 用英语写下你的购物清单。Go old school and write out difficult vocabulary words and their definitions, five times each. 用古老的方式，抄写五个困难的字汇各五次Change your phone's and computer's language to English. 把你的手机和电脑的语言转换成英语

Episode 10 -In this episode Don shares his beginnings with Vasantham ***Vettai *** and Channel 5's ***Tanglin.*** I have known Don since 2015 on the set of ***Tanglin***. It was Singapore's longest English TV long form series- running at more than 800 plus (half hr) episodes and it had a number of directors on board. And we were part of that. It is super interesting for me IMHO to have two directors talking about it because strangely we seldom do- sharing our experiences coz we mostly kept to ourselves. This is one of the most Director-centric insdier talk sessh. Most of all, I love his sharing his concept of success.

In this thirteenth episode of the season of the Her Spirit podcast BBC Breakfast presenter Louise Minchin and BBC Triathlon presenter Annie Emmerson talk to TV presenter Helen Skelton. She talks about her time on SAS Who Dares Wins, life as mum of 2 boys Ernie & Louis and her priorities in life.Helen Skelton joined the Blue Peter team in the summer of 2008, as the 33rd presenter of the long-running show. Staying until 2013, her natural personable style and adventurous streak won her many loyal fans and saw her cement herself as one of Britain’s best-loved presenters.Since leaving the children’s show Helen has presented Countryfile, The Instant Gardener and covered some of the historic sporting events of Rio 2016 and London 2012 for the BBC. Helen has continued to establish her presenting career in covering the London Marathons in 2010 and 2011 for BBC 5 Live team, reporting from the Epsom Derby and Wimbledon Championships for the same station.Alongside her day job, Helen is a part-time adventurer, in 2009 she was crowned the second woman ever to complete the Namibia Ultra Marathon. Not stopping there, only two weeks later she ran to prestigious London Marathon for Leonard Cheshire Disability. Running isn’t the only outdoor event Helen excels at, she has climbed out of a Moulin on an Alaskan glacier, beaten a world power boat champion and come in 6th place in the UK Women’s Downhill Skateboarding Championships.Following her double marathon triumph in 2009, Helen kayaked 2,010 miles down the Amazon in support ofSport Relief just one year later in 2010. Breaking two Guinness World Records; the longest solo journey by kayak, and the longest kayak by a woman in 24 hours, Helen put her name in history books as Blue Peter documented her trip in a two-part special for SportRelief.For Comic Relief 2011, Helen decided to train in the art of high wire walking and completed a 150-metre-long, 66-metre-high walk between the towers of Battersea Power Station. ‘Girl on Wire’ was aired as a BBC1 special, and it led to her being nominated for Best Presenter at the 2011 Children's BAFTAs.In 2012 Helen became the first person to reach the South Pole using a bicycle, and continuing her adventurous streak in 2013 she took on seven challenges for Comic Relief, hoping to inspire her Blue Peter audience. Despite failing in two challenges, she still succeeded in 5!These podcasts have been made possible through the support of Medichecks www.medichecks.com and Sport England www.sportengland.org. For more information on Her Spirit go to www.herspirit.co.uk and sign up and download the Her Spirit app.

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This week Rob has mic problems but that doesn't stop the Great Callback team from bringing you another great episode! This week Rob and Andrea talk about our favourite English TV shows. Are you even ready for this, mate?

LISTEN: Take inspiration from Lara Tabet. Previously a presenter on Dubai's first-ever English TV channel, Lara's career in media includes meeting the world's biggest celebs, (*cough Morgan Freeman, *cough George Clooney) working with couture designers, being awarded Global Influencer of the year, working as a luxury brand ambassador, to establishing her own brand; Lara's non-stop work ethic could be bottled and sold.

LISTEN: Take inspiration from Lara Tabet. Previously a presenter on Dubai's first-ever English TV channel, Lara's career in media includes meeting the world's biggest celebs, (*cough Morgan Freeman, *cough George Clooney) working with couture designers, being awarded Global Influencer of the year, working as a luxury brand ambassador, to establishing her own brand; Lara's non-stop work ethic could be bottled and sold.

In this episode of Invert the why Drunknmunky and Rocket Russell meet for the first time and chat about English TV shows. Shows such as Benny Hill, East Enders, Only Fools and Horses, Dr Who, Black Adder, The Young Ones, Are You Being Served?, George and Mildred, The Office and more. Somehow we also get onto the topic of beer, English food and Tasmania. We then try to determine the difference between English and American comedies. We may have failed. Hosted by Retro DanInvert the Why is a comedic celebration of geek culture. Geeks come in all shapes, specialities, and backgrounds and we aim to learn from them all. Join Retro Dan and Jason Relaxation as they laugh and learn with nerds across Gaming, Tech, Music, The Arts, Sport, Science and Exploration. Kisses.We also now have a store, https://shop.inverty.net. Here you will find all the things Retro Dan, Jason Relaxation, and their guests love and talk about on the Invert The Why Podcast.Shop for retro & gaming apparel, Podcast swag, and of course our unique designs based on the show. Find the perfect gift for yourself, or maybe someone else. Feel good that 10% of revenue (not profit) goes straight to the Melanoma Institute of Australia. If you dont want to buy stuff - maybe make a donation to them instead?Find us on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5IVIRqB5RBtv5SsBzMsb5w), Itunes (https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/invert-the-why/id1450102751?mt=2), Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqxU0sjDQSr5FHE13VDpxfA), or at our Website (https://inverty.net).

Amid a slow week at the cinema, amongst stuffy English TV lords and sad Brad dads in space, Nathan and Clint decided to stay on the couch this week and check out some of the streaming-only offerings on the old Net of Flix? Did you know you can watch movies on your computer now? Instantly? For a subscription? Wild! This episode, we’re offering up an anti-comedy double feature with two stars who disappear into unlikable personas of themselves. First, there’s Between Two Ferns: The Movie, in which Zach Galifianakis leverages his Funny or Die sketch series into a Wayne’s World-esque road trip through a bevy of hilariously uncomfortable celebrity interviews. Then we dive deeper into the wacky world of method acting with Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, in which Jim Carrey recounts the time he disappeared into the role of Andy Kaufman for Man on the Moon, and generally made an ass out of himself. Enjoy! 8:06 - Between Two Ferns: The Movie 32:12 - Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond 53:42 - Mailbag 1:00:48 - Happy Places Follow us on Twitter at @RabinsCast (Nathan: @nathanrabin, Clint: @clintworthing)! Pledge to our Patreon, and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Ask us questions at asknathanrabinshappycast@gmail.com! Theme Song by Jon Biegen

Dominic takes the helm on trailer talk as we go deeper into Downton, juggle with a joker, see double Will Smith and then double-tap out for safety in a zombie comedy.Jaymee and Trevor join forces to give feedback on what is worth watching at the cinema, what can wait until streaming and what should be given a miss at the cinema.From a successful English TV series to one of the most recognized villains in comic book history, to the book adaptation and finally the most refreshing zombie movie.#DowntonAbbey, #GeminiMan, #JokerMovie, ZombielandDoubleTap

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Do you want to leave a comment? ▶Click here to leave comments◀ Do you want more help with your English?  Visit my website and join the Ivy League English Club for study resources. ▶Website◀ Subscribe to my YouTube channel for study tips, mini-lessons and online English classes for adults ▶YouTube◀ Join my Facebook page for lessons and online English classes for adults ▶Facebook◀ Vocabulary from this episode: to mumble (v) speech (n) lecture (n) nerd (n) hilarious (adj) Expressions from this episode: to let the cat out of the bag TRANSCRIPT Today we’re going to talk about a great way to improve your listening skills in English. Lots of students enjoy watching TV shows and movies in English because they’re fun and entertaining. But this is also a great way to practice understanding native speakers. Let’s be honest, native speakers can be really hard to understand. Sometimes we speak quickly. Sometimes we mumble. That means we don’t speak clearly. Here’s what mumbling sounds like: (example). Did you understand that? Yeah, that’s mumbling. Plus, native speakers use so many expressions and slang words. You need to practice listening to native speakers a lot if you want to be able to understand them easily. When you watch TV shows in English, you’ll hear common words, phrases and expressions that native speakers use when they talk about everyday things like work, family and their personal lives. You’ll also hear references to American culture, so you can learn a lot about that from these shows too. As a matter of fact, most of my students who take private classes with me watch TV shows as part of their homework every week. But here’s a common mistake that a lot of students make. They choose the wrong show. So today, I’m going to talk about how to choose a show and which show my students have enjoyed the most. After that, I’ll give you some tips on how to really learn from watching TV shows. First, I want to talk about some of the common things that students watch. Ted Talks videos are very popular. There are tons of videos available on YouTube and Ted Talks can be great practice. You can learn vocabulary and expressions from these videos, but you need to remember a few things. First, a Ted Talks video is usually a speech or a lecture. One person talks for the entire video. And the way people talk when they’re giving a speech is not the same as the way people talk when they’re having a conversation. Second, the thing that a lot of students need to practice as they get more advanced is understanding conversations where more than one person is talking to them. A lot of students need to improve this skill, especially if they work in a place where meetings are held in English. When you’re trying to listen to more than one person, things can get really confusing. And listening to speeches and lectures, won’t really help you to improve that skill. Another popular show is The Big Bang Theory. I’ll be honest. I’m not sure why people think this is a great show for English students. Most of the main characters in this TV show are nerds. They’re very smart and they talk a lot about science and math. So, the way these characters speak is sometimes very complicated. They use advanced vocabulary that isn’t important for English students to learn and that can make the show more confusing. These characters also don’t have the best social skills, so the way they talk is not the best example of the English language, unless you want to sound like a nerd. So, yes, the show is funny, but it may not be the best show to use if you want to hear how most native speakers talk. The truth is most people don’t talk like the characters on the Big Bang Theory. Game of Thrones is another show that’s popular with students, but again, native speakers don’t talk the way the people on this show talk. The accents and the vocabulary are different. So, watch it for fun if you want, but it’s not the best example of how people in the U.S. speak. The last show I’ll mention is Friends. I think every English student that I’ve ever talked to about TV shows has mentioned Friends. So, here’s my advice on that show. You need to remember that it’s an old show. It’s about 20 years old. Of course, the English language hasn’t changed that much in 20 years, but there are some things that are different. The most common slang words today, for example, are different from what they were 20 years ago. Also, the references to American culture that you’ll hear are kind of old. Honestly, this is my biggest problem with a show like this. Watching TV shows is a great way to learn more about American culture, but culture changes over time. I always prefer that my students watch something modern that will introduce them to today’s slang and culture. I think that those shows are more useful and a better resource for students.   If you want to watch videos or TV shows that only have one speaker, are a bit complicated or are more than 10 years old, that’s ok. They’re still good listening practice, but you need to remember the things that I mentioned earlier. Now, I’m going to tell you about one of my students’ favorite TV shows and if you have access to Netflix or Amazon Prime video, it should be really easy to find. If you don’t have either of those, you can probably find this show online somewhere else, so look around. Maybe some of you know a great website for watching English TV shows. If you do, please share the link in the comments. I’d love to share it with other students. Ok, I have two students, Steve and Jacky...If you’re listening, hey guys! Ok, I have two students who love this show. It’s called The Good Place. This show is about a woman named Eleanor who dies and goes to heaven, but she wasn’t supposed to go to heaven. She was supposed to go to hell. So she’s in a place where she doesn’t belong. Only one person knows and she needs to make sure that no one else finds out. She doesn’t want to let the cat out of the bag. Do you guys know that expression? Let the cat out of the bag means you tell a secret or you reveal a secret. So Eleanor has to work hard to keep this secret, but of course, lots of hilarious..That means really funny. Lots of hilarious things happen. The great things about this show are that it’s current (it’s only about 4 or 5 years old), there are lots of group conversations and the language isn’t too complicated. Also, even though the show happens in a strange place, there are still lots of everyday conversations. People fall in love, get in trouble, ask for help, things like that. So give this one a try. The next show is one you should try if The Good Place is a little too advanced for you. This TV show is a cartoon, but it’s not too silly. It’s actually based on a really old computer game that I used to play when I was about 10 years old. The show’s called Carmen Sandiego and it’s about a young woman named Carmen, who grew up in a school for professional thieves. She learned how to steal things when she was a kid. As she gets older, she realizes that the people she grew up with are breaking the law, so she decides to use her skills to stop them. This show is great for a lot of reasons. First of all, it’s less than a year old, so the language is very modern or current. Since it’s a cartoon, the vocabulary and story are also simpler than what you’ll hear in adult shows. Finally, a lot of the shows that you’ll hear people suggest for English students are comedies. If you’re looking for something different, this show has plenty of action that you might enjoy.   Now, let me give you a few tips for watching TV shows in English. The first thing you should do is watch the show without any subtitles and see how much you can understand. Then watch the show as many times as you want with English subtitles only. Don’t use subtitles in your native language. That won’t help you very much. When you watch the show with the subtitles, you should try to read the words on the screen as you hear them. This will help you to learn how native speakers pronounce words when they’re part of a sentence. This is a good way to train your ears so that you can understand connected speech. This is how you can practice understanding real English from real native speakers. Here’s another suggestion: The first time that you watch the show with subtitles, you should take notes on any words or phrases that you don’t understand. At the end, look up the words and phrases that you think are the most important for you to learn in order to understand the show. Then when you watch it again with subtitles, look at your notes so that you remember what these new words and phrases mean. This will definitely help you to understand more of the show. Over the next few days and weeks, make sure that you review the vocabulary that you learned. You need to look at it again and again so that you remember what the words mean and how they were used in the show. If you can remember what was happening when the word was used, it will be a lot easier to remember the word weeks and even months after you learned it. Here’s one last tip for you: If you have to look up more than 20 words to understand a TV show, it’s too hard for you. Pick something easier. Alright everyone. I’ve given you plenty of things to work on. Now, it’s time for you to go pick a show and get started. If you have questions about anything that I talked about today, make sure you leave a comment so that I can help you. Also, don’t forget to answer the question that I asked earlier: What websites (other than YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video) do you use to watch TV shows in English?  

John Lloyd CBE is a legendary English TV producer and writer best known for his work on comedy TV programmes such as “Not the Nine O’Clock News”, “Spitting Image”, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, “Blackadder” and “QI”. Today John talks about using comedy as a unifier, turning disasters into gifts, the curse of our current education system, his advice to business leaders, what makes a good brand and why we should start with ourselves if we’re planning to create change.For full show notes, scroll down. On today’s podcast:Using comedy as a unifierSeeing disaster as a giftThe curse of our education systemJohn’s formula for long-lasting business successHis advice to leadersWe can change the world only by changing ourselvesLinks:QIFull show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Episode 121 of the podcast, host Kevin O'Shea welcomes back regular guests Mully and Pee Jay. Mully and Pee Jay are both long-term expat residents of Japan who arrived here in the early 1990's. What did they do for entertainment in the days before the Internet was around? How did they make friends before there was social networking? Were there English TV shows on Japanese stations? How does the entertainment and social landscape look today as compared to when they first landed in Japan? Pee Jay and Mully also give some advice to people thinking of coming to Japan for the first time. Support the podcast on Pateon: https://www.patreon.com/justjapanpodcast Just Japan Podcast: Shownotes/Website: http://justjapanstuff.com RSS Feed: http://justjapan.libsyn.com/rss Twitter: http://twitter.com/jlandkev Instagram: http://instagram.com/jlandkev Email: justjapanpodcast@gmail.com

Mateusz asks: "I have trouble understanding TV in English. What should I do?" In this episode: TV, movies and radio are "larger than life" and often contain language that's not common or everyday Watching TV can help, but it's not a quick fix Focus your study on material can be effectively studied, then use your free time for immersion, using TV, radio, or whatever you like Resources mentioned in this episode: Episode 88 - Should you watch movies with subtitles? 3 Awesome Podcasts to Master Conversation in English Start speaking today I’d like to thank iTalki for supporting the show.

January 7-13, 1978  Today Ken welcomes musician Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, Folk Implosion) to the show. Ken and Lou discuss being not from Detroit, Iggy Pop, being terrified of murderous hippies, becoming what you fear, torturing younger sisters, Saturday Morning religious programming, Sunrise Semester, SCTV, man's place in nature, late night English TV, German Steam Rooms, Warner Bros, Looney Tunes, dark suicides in cartoons, cats fearing "Happy Birthday", questioning the intelligence of Jimmy Durante impressions, Hair Bear Bunch, hating cheap TV Cartoons, Scooby Doo and it's relation to high fevers, lying geniuses, Jay Ward's store, Superchicken, education through Fractured Fairy Tales, Sid & Marty Kroft, the dark seedy underbelly of underground Claw Machine rings, Caldor Colors, how decades are more than 10 years, the magic of late 70s/early 80s music, New Wave, the eclectic pop charts, Discharge, college radio, Top 40, AM Radio Maps, narrow casting ruining stumbling on things, not hating modern times, Night Flight, Drive-In Theaters, depressing 70s Crime Drama, Three for the Road, Isis (the super hero), Filmation, Rocket Robin Hood, Hulk Theme Song, Canadian Content, Little House on the Prairie, Rape on TV, The White Shadow, James at 15 (16), fear of brain aneurysms, Sweeds, sound checking with the Greatest American Hero, Family Ties, UK songs in commercials. Folk Implosion "Natural One", ending with a "sha-la-la-la", hearing yourself in a Liqueur Store, making it with Casey Kasem, early days of MTV, The Cutting Edge, always having time for Hair Metal, 120 Minutes, SSD, why The Freeze are the most uncool of all the Boston Hardcore bands, Dinosaur Jr, Lou's first TV Credit at age 10, Scrambled Eggs, The Young Ones, High School Quiz shows, Massholes, the culture clash of moving to MA, being on the wrong side of Red Sox history, losing to ringers, the perils of school busing, being confused by The Bad News Bears,  Mass beating the love of sports out of you, roaming gangs of street soccer hooligans, UMass Radio's DaDa Vision, "Why Do You Cut off Your Sleeves", the Western MA accent, teachers thinking you are on drugs or "retahded", making it to your High School Guidance Counselor's Wall of Fame, not doing anything, literally anything, in high school, Negative Approach, Somerville, MA, Boston's North End, the video shoot for "Ocean", the worst thing Lou ever did in his life, TT The Bear's Place, Morton Downey Jr., the bloated mess that was the video for "Willing to Wait", Adventure Time, Alan Partridge, UK Comedy, The Mighty Boosh, Donnie and Marie, being absent from the language of pop culture, Star Wars, seeing things again through children's eyes, The Princess Pride, Andre the Giant, introducing the next generation to professional wrestling, Reading Rainbow and why "The Bindery" may be the best worst song ever on television. 

Back in the 1970's a TV show came along unlike any other. The Goodies Three men who would do Anything, Anywhere, anytime. The amazing and wonderful adventures of Tim, Graeme and Bill. In this episode of Historical Hystericals we look at the very funny Goodies from English TV. This episode will bring back memories and show you things you didn't know. Don't forget to tell your friends about us. We hope you enjoy this episode of Historical Hystericals. If you enjoy the show review us on iTunes. You can contact us on Facebook under Historical Hystericals. Enjoy the show. And Have Fun. Commander Mike Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)