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- 181 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Hello, Chris is still at Labour Party conference, day 17. Yes, hello. We're currently on a building site because it's that whole thing. I've just taken off my PPE, my reflective yellow top, for moving around here because everything's being shoved in the back of wagons and taken to Birmingham for the Conservative Conference starting at the weekend.
The cavalcade rules on and Faisal's here in the studio having got back from Liverpool as well. Faisal, would you like to be part of the sequel to what we did yesterday, which was summing up Andy Burnham's big conference speech in one word? One, not even a phrase, a word. Well, I know you're a man of many words.
So you prefer a phrase to a word. Well, punchy. I thought he got his cricket bat out and kind of smashed through.
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