305. Film Club: Back To The Future (Part 2)

In this episode I am reconnecting with an old friend after over 25 years of not seeing each other. Jez Booker is from Solihull in the West Midlands and I first met him at 6th form college, where we became friends and later we got into a band together and had many adventures. Jez ...  Show more

In 2009 I did a solo travelling experience around Vietnam, and I wrote a diary while I was there. In this episode, over 16 years later, I read out the diary, follow my descriptions of each part of my trip, explore how I was feeling at that time of my life, go off on some comedy a ...  Show more

In this episode of Coffee Break English, we hear from Ryan in Canada. He tells us about the future of North American space travel, and we learn about how to talk about the future using ‘will' and 'be going to’. 

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I go over some near and distant future predictions (as provided by Chat GPT) and share my views on how likely I think they are to happen. I'm a big fan of science fiction and wondering about how different things will be in the future, so I invite you to make predictions with me a ...  Show more

Future forecaster and game designer Jane McGonigal ran a social simulation game in 2008 that had players dealing with the effects of a respiratory pandemic set to happen in the next decade. She wasn’t literally predicting the 2020 pandemic—but she got eerily close. Her game, set ...  Show more

August 14, 2023. The HTW team is ready to talk. In a special episode that wraps up Season 4, Sally asks the people behind the scenes about lessons they've learned from telling hundreds of true stories about the past. It’s a great conversation you’re not going to want to miss. And ...  Show more