Room 101🚪with Charlie Baxter 🇬🇧 Funny British English Listening Practice [980]

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  Hello listeners, how are you doing today?

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  Welcome back to Luke's English Podcast.

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  Let me tell you what you can expect from this episode.

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  So, in the UK, in Britain, on the BBC,

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  on television, There's a really popular show and it's called Room 101.

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  It's a really popular show.

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  It's the sort of thing that you see on maybe a Friday evening or something like that.

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  It's a kind of comedy chat show.

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  It's been on TV for many years and it's a really well-known show.

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  Lots of British people know Room 101.

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  The concept of the show is that there's the host and there's the guest.

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  More recent sort of iterations of the show.

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  You see a host and three guests and they sort of compete with each other and stuff like that.

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  But the basic idea is that a guest is invited onto the show and they name three things which they would like to be removed from the world and banished into this room called Room 101.

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  Now, the idea of that is sort of loosely inspired by...

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  the story 1984, written by George Orwell,

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  which of course is a very serious book, a very important book.

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  You might well have read it.

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  And in that book, there is a room, which is called Room 101.

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  And that's where all of your worst fears and all of the things in the world that you are most afraid of and that you hate the most,

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