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Another short story on LEP to entertain you and help you learn some more English words and expressions. This one is a creepy tale about a room in a house with a strange, fatal attraction. People can't stop themselves going through the door, but then what happens to them? Follow a ...  Show more

A funny British English conversation about food, cooking & eating habits, with my friend Martin. Why is British food a bit of a joke? Do French people have the right to criticise British cuisine? What is marmite, and why don't Brits just throw it away? What did Luke eat for lunch ...  Show more

The podcast is taking a short break for the month of May 2025. It will return in early to mid-June. We'll be back soon! If you want to contact me in the meantime about an episode or anything chess-related, you can do so here. 

The Pod-Pals are back on the podcast for another catching up session! Recorded just after the summer holidays, there is talk of Paul's hatred of the beach 🏖️, the English tradition of building epic sandcastles 🏰, other famous people with our names (including an "evil" teacherlu ...  Show more

In the beginning of June we decided to make our summer premium episodes free for everyone for the whole summer and try monetize our podcast with ads.  Now that the summer's almost over we have decided to make a few changes to how we release new content. 1. First of all, all prem ...  Show more

Big News: I'm taking a (short) break from the podcast!

We won't be airing new episodes for the next couple of months, but we will be working behind the scenes on some content so we can start releasing some fun new episodes in Marc ...