Improve your English with these short dramas and stories. Find more at bbclearningenglish.com Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus
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If you've watched and loved the delightful musical My Fair Lady, then you'd love to read the wonderful play on which it is based. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is equally engrossing and as full of charm, wit and underlying pathos. First performed on stage in 1912, Pygmalion takes its title from the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. In the ancient story, a brilliant sculptor, Pygmalion falls in love with one of his own creations, a ravishingly beautiful sculpture whom he names Galatea. ...
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A romp through the field of computer programming, grapling with our history and wondering what should come next. A mix of deeply technical talk, philosophy, art, dark lore, and good takes. Hosted by Ivan Reese, Jimmy Miller, and Lu Wilson.
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These online audio resources consist of lectures and interviews on Bernard Shaw by renowned Shaw scholars. The plays covered include Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, and many more. Featured scholars will include Professor Stanley Weintraub, Professor Sally Peters, Professor Leonard Conolly, Professor Richard Dietrich and Professor Michael O'Hara.
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The podcast where we explore how old tales are made new! Whether it's the fairytales we heard as children, the classic literature we read in high school, or the most ancient of mythologies, it seems creators can't help but keep putting their own spin on old stories, and we're going to tackle every flavor we can get our nerdy hands on.
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Poetic Wax is a short weekly podcast where host Andy Fenstermaker digs deep into his vast record collection to uncover and share the history of bands, albums, songs, and more. Poetic Wax explores music history in all its forms, from new angles on things widely covered to the little known moments that create monumental change.
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A wide-ranging discussion rarely touching on the pressing matters of the day. Social, Sexual, Psychological and Political matters are never intentionally on the agenda.
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Completely Biased Broadway Reviews.
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About minimum wage and documents covering the pros and cons about it
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”The Modern Federalist” is a dynamic and thought-provoking podcast hosted by Charlton Allen. With a keen focus on politics, international affairs, American society, and life in the 21st century, this cutting-edge podcast offers a fresh perspective on the issues that shape our world. Through engaging discussions and insightful interviews, Charlton Allen delves into the complexities of modern governance, exploring the challenges and opportunities that arise in an ever-changing global landscape ...
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Learn the latest futurism updates in the tech world.
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You are a Dreamer! Your echoes bring forth tales of wonder... Step into a realm where dreams are caught in the fabric of time, whispering tales of ancient gods and mythic adventures. Welcome to "Echoes of a Dreamer," a captivating podcast series that unveils enchanting mythological stories in each episode. Immerse yourself in the magic of standalone narratives, from celestial births to heroic quests, tragedy to tender love. Every dream you've ever had has left its echo, inspiring this extrao ...
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This subject explores Ancient Roman epic poetry, the literary genre which deals with grand mythical narratives involving heroes, gods, war, and love affairs. Epic was the most prestigious literary form in the ancient world. Roman poets adapted and developed Greek epic, particularly influenced by the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey. Roman epics similarly deal with divine and heroic material, but Roman poets also weave contemporary and topical themes into the mythical subject matter. The primary tex ...
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In early 1995, Slowdive released an album so misunderstood that it effectively ended their career. But today, Pygmalion is hailed by some as a masterpiece. How did something so ahead of its time fail so spectacularly? This is the story of that ill fated album and why it ultimately led to the band calling it quits. Watch the episode on YouTube and g…
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Worlds Elsewhere Theatre Company's Pygmalion
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52:41Send us a text It's time to shout out our favorite online theatre company/charity with director Sam Marchiony, producer Ilana Greenberg-Sud, and even a special guest appearance from the realms of the public domain! Join host (and leading lady!) Jasmine as they discuss all the ways Shaw's most famous work is tragically relevant to today, the challen…
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A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans
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2:04:08In the academic field of programming language research, there are a few prestigious conferences that you must present at to advance in your career. These conferences are rather selective about which presentations they'll accept. If your research work involves proving formal properties about a programming language, you'll have their ear. But if your…
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 12 uses of ‘turn’. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts i…
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Why "Meat is Murder" by The Smiths Still Matters Today
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16:45In February 1985, The Smiths released Meat is Murder, an album that connects the dots between various forms of violence that perpetuate our society. This is the story of that album and why it still matters today. Watch the episode on YouTube and go deeper with more video episodes. The YouTube episode includes reference links to audio/video clips fe…
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 19 uses of ‘spot’. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts i…
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#450 THE NERDLINGS PODCAST: SHALL WE PLAY A GAME: TO THE BEACH
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30:46#450 THE NERDLINGS PODCAST: SHALL WE PLAY A GAME: TO THE BEACH The Nerdlings podcast where we have a song that is is a strange calibration by 2 artist who you may know of. But not knowing they worked together. And Jersey Mike will listen and try to guess the artist. AND YOU CAN PLAY AT HOME. DAVID LEE ROTH THE BEACH BOYS CALIFORNIA GIRLS LIVE ON ST…
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Did Marianne Faithfull Inspire "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones?
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9:03Did Marianne Faithfull really inspire Mick Jagger to pen "Wild Horses" off The Rolling Stones' 1971 album 'Sticky Fingers?' In this video, we look at the lore and the legend of one of the hottest It Couples of the Swinging Sixties, and how the song may (or may not) have been about the late muse. Watch the episode on YouTube and go deeper with more …
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 10 uses of ‘picture’. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcast…
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 13 uses of ‘tell’. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts i…
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In Each Retake: A Salute to All Distractions, But Mostly From the 10 Things I Hate About You Episode
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49:34Send us a text For reasons that need not be mentioned, I'm sure you folks could use a distraction, so here are some more outtakes where we talk extensively about our high school experiences, Popcorn the Cat, Heath Ledger, and how we're of course all from the Toy Story universe. Enjoy! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The vi…
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 8 uses of ‘cry’ - in 5 minutes. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER:✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular p…
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In Each Retake: The Much Belated 2024 Holiday Special
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23:48Send us a text We're well into January, and partially into our hiatus, but who among us hasn't received a belated gift card or something from a distant relative two weeks after Christmas? So this is just like that! Enjoy this year's holiday themed outtakes special! The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions exp…
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It's a miracle Iggy Pop finished 'Soldier' with the amount of chaos an infighting that took place during the recording sessions late in 1979. Within the album is a fever dream cast of stars from David Bowie and ex Sex Pistols' bassist Glen Matlock to XTC's Barry Andrews and The Patti Smith Group's Ivan Kral. Love it or hate it, this is the wild sto…
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Pippa and Beth talk about some language you can use to tell a good story. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/christmas-stories/250110 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow u…
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The Untold Story of Blonde Redhead’s Explosive Beginnings
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14:13Conflict and creativity. Connection and chaos. Love and hate. These all defined Blonde Redhead in their early days, and the themes continue to drive them after more than three decades. This is the story of how three foreigners on the streets of New York City to create one of the most fascinating bands in modern alternative and indie rock. This is t…
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Retelling the News: Public Domain Day 2025
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44:50Send us a text This week we're hesitant to celebrate the new year, but Jas, River, Shami, and Justin can at least celebrate all the new works in the public domain now! Which offbeat personal interests are now eligible for this podcast? How many of these have slashers in the works as we speak? What will Justin's plug be this time? All this and more …
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"Is the whole universe a computer?", ask Jack Copeland, Mark Sprevak, and Oron Shagrir in chapter 41 of the book The Turing Guide. They split this question in two, first asking whether the universe itself is a computer, then whether the universe could even be computed. These are lofty, unanswerable questions, sure, but they encroach on our territor…
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Christmas Stories: New Year rituals and blenders
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7:41Georgie and Pippa share real stories about New Year. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/christmas-stories/250103 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://…
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How Going Solo Changed Everything for M83
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13:35Before the Dawn Heals Us by M83 was a big departure from the band's first two records. We know M83 as a synth-heavy electronic pop outfit centered around Anthony Gonzalez, made famous the world over by the GRAMMY nominated 2011 hit "Midnight City," but back in 2004 they were more known for electronic-based shoegaze. The departure of Nicholas Fromag…
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Send us a text Happy New Year, and happy belated Hanukkah, this year we close out our holiday festivities with the "Hanukkah basketball movie" that Disney Channel made, and really wanted to portray as a modernized version of the story of Hanukkah, in spite of it also being based on the life of Lamont Carr. It's about as silly as it sounds, and who …
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How He Lied to Her Husband by playwright George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion fame). 30 minute play. An adaptation of the one-act,
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30:00This podcasts from our co-host and member Greg Van Cott of The Shiny Squirrel Podcast. He was part of the editing team and voice actor in this production. With many other well noted professional actors from Hollywood. Alexander Wells is the Board Chairman of LA Theatre Labs. https://www.laconservatory.edu/about-us/faculty/alex-wells-2/ How He Lied …
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comBy George Bernard Shaw
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How and why did David Bowie, one of the most iconic musicians of all time, create such an embarrassing song? And why does it keep rearing its head? This is the story of Bowie's 1967 single "The Laughing Gnome," how it returned with a vengeance in 1973, and how it caused mischief in 1990. This episode contains a clip called "Requiem for a Laughing G…
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David Bowie and the Story of 'Andy Warhol'
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12:06On David Bowie's "Hunky Dory" is a track titled "Andy Warhol" which Bowie wrote about the pop art icon, whom he admired. But what did Warhol think of it? Not much... so goes this week's episode of Poetic Wax. Today, host Andy Fenstermaker pulls out his copy of the album, dives into the lead up to "Hunky Dory," the history of the song, and the time …
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Christmas Stories: Christmas trees and caravans
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6:10Georgie and Phil share real stories about Christmas. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/christmas-stories/241227 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://…
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In this special Christmas edition of The Modern Federalist Podcast, host Charlton Allen sets aside the usual news and commentary to celebrate the joy and meaning of the season. Join us for a nostalgic program filled with carols, reflections, and inspiration, as we honor the traditions of Christmas and extend warm holiday wishes to listeners of all …
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IER Spends Christmas in the Twilight Zone: The Night(s) of the Meek
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1:05:02Send us a text In honor of the Christmas season and Rod Serling's birthday, we discuss "Night of the Meek", the Twilight Zone Christmas special so nice they did it twice! Join Jas, Charley, Shami, Grady, and Justin discuss the value of the idea of Santa Claus and how it's perfectly encapsulated in this story of an kind, alcoholic department store S…
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When Modest Mouse Built Nothing Out of Something
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9:33Before Modest Mouse achieved critical acclaim with their 2004 album "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" on Epic Records, the band had become indie rock darlings of the Pacific Northwest. In 2000, they’d give us their major label debut, "The Moon And Antarctica," but before that came an indie culmination of creativity — a compilation on their s…
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Send us a text For reasons that totally only have to do with the upcoming remake, we're taking a detour in our holiday festivities to discuss the oldest film on our docket yet, Nosferatu: A Symphony in Horror! Join Jas, Shami, Conor, and Justin in discussing how shockingly well this film from the medium's infancy holds up, and how influential it is…
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The Story of the Failed Television & Brian Eno Sessions
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19:00In December of 1974, an Island Records A&R exec out of London put together a demo session for punk pioneers Television. They were joined in the studio by Brian Eno, formerly of Roxy Music, who had gone solo that same year. With hopes of a promising endeavor to pitch the band to label heads, the sessions instead were a complete failure with the band…
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How the Grunkle Stole Chanukkah/Interview with Mystery Shack Lookback's Charley Marlowe and Ella Cesari
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1:22:15Send us a text Hanukkah's arrived a little early on In Each Retelling, just in time for the 10th anniversary of the first fan episode of Gravity Falls, and the collaboration of our guests, Charley Marlowe and Ella Cesari, hosts of Mystery Shack Lookback! Join us as they discuss the various inspirations that went into this delightful 15 minute fanwo…
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Christmas Stories: Ice skating and car disasters
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9:08Beth and Neil share real stories about Christmas. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/christmas-stories/241220 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www…
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Landlady Musings, Why Go Abroad?, Building Britain.By Jonathan Holloway and Liam Grundy
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In Our Retellings: The Nightmare Before a Very Austen Christmas
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59:07Send us a text It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is Jane Austen's birthday today, so what better way to celebrate than to discuss different ways to bring the holiday spirit into her tales...which in two of these pitches' cases, we mean literally! Surprisingly we have a number of spooky Christmas pitches here, from an absolutely bugnuts…
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These are my picks for the 10 best albums of 2024, mostly spanning the indie rock genre. What's missing, and what's not worthy? Visit my channel on YouTube and share your thoughts! Poetic Wax: Music History Hidden in the Grooves is a weekly podcast, YouTube series, and Substack blog hosted by Andy Fenstermaker. Get the video version on my YouTube C…
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 12 uses of ‘out’ - in 5 minutes. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:Visit our website✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER:✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular p…
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The Tormented Soul of Jason Molina: The Story of ‘The Lioness’
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12:50In January of 2000, Songs: Ohia, the project of Jason Molina, released The Lioness. Ripe with metaphor and deeply personal lyrics, this album is among the many pillars of Molina's vast career. This is the story of that album, the songs within, and the hint of Jason Molina's tragic fate 13 years later. Poetic Wax: Music History Hidden in the Grooves…
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#449 THE NERDLINGS PODCAST: SHALL WE PLAY A GAME: TIME TURN
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31:02#448 THE NERDLINGS PODCAST: SHALL WE PLAY A GAME: TIME TURN Cher, Cyndi Lauper - If I Could Turn Back Time (Live from the MGM Grand Las Vegas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dtCyNrTn_4 Cyndi Lauper - "If I Could Turn Back Time" (Cher Tribute) | 2018 Kennedy Center Honors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quMSK1Q0sN0 email address for contact: nerdl…
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Send us a text Harold? They're lesbians. What better time than the holiday season for us to get another wish, this time another wild card wish from Ellie, and what other wish could Ellie have given us but the 2015 queer cinema Christmas classic, Carol, the sole film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel (though not for lack of trying by 1950s Ho…
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Down With Wilco: When Jeff Tweedy Met The Minus 5
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9:18Between the chaotic recording of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the success that followed, Wilco had a meeting of the minds with The Minus 5, a collaborative effort from Scott McCaughey (pronounced McKoy, not McKai, as I say throughout this video) of The Young Fresh Fellows. Joined by R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and The Posies' Ken Stringfellow, this collective …
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Enjoy a classic story in English and learn 9 uses of ‘keep’ - in 5 minutes. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER:✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular …
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Before Loveless: My Bloody Valentine’s Forgotten Goth Era
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8:26In the early days, My Bloody Valentine was far from the iconic shoegaze band they'd become know as. Today we look back at "This Is Your Bloody Valentine." Released in January of 1985, it was the band's debut, and its goth undertones would help shape the sound they'd eventually pioneer: shoegaze. This is the story of that mini album, and the transfo…
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Send us a text At long last, we've reached the Emerald City of our exploration of the Oz mythos with the musical that made your hostess about 25-50% of who fae are today, Wicked: The Musical, the blockbuster musical that has been astounding audiences for 20 years, and is now being made into a duology of films. Join Jas, River, Callie, and Sam as we…
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