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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Neil.
Can you do any impersonations, Neil?
Hmm.
How about this one?
My name is Michael Caine.
Not a lot of people know that.
Hmm.
Michael Caine, one of our best-loved actors here in Britain.
Not bad, Neil.
And it's a very good way to start today's show.
We are talking about impersonation,
or the act of pretending to be somebody else.
Why do we like impersonations, Neil?
Well, sometimes the impersonator is a comedian and doing it to be funny.
But another reason is that we get the opportunity to meet people who are no longer with us,
like Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe.