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Today, what does Andy Burnham’s meeting with Donald Trump tell us about his premiership? Adam, Alex, Gary and the editor of the New Statesman Tom Mctague round up the political week. They discuss whether the UK government is getting better at dealing with Trump’s White House, the relationship between President Trump and President Xi, and, a big new poll which has big implications for both sides of the British political spectrum. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play News...
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Sathya Sathya is here in the newscast studio in Parson. Hello. Hello. So used to seeing you in a
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 84% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 205 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 150 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Alex Sathya Sathya is here in the newscast studio in Parson. Hello. Hello. So used to seeing you in a little box from Westminster. It's actually a joy to see your face. Thank you. The real thing. Smaller in real life. I'm not sure of them. A giant Westminster screen like the hugest floating head.
How's your 100 days challenge going? Actually quite good. Okay. Yeah. So my challenge is to read the Iliad which is this epic Greek poem written by someone called, or a collection of people called Homer and I did confess to newscasters not so long ago that I hadn't even started it. I heard, I heard.
I know, awful. But now I am well and truly into it. So I've had such a classical month, so obviously watch The Odyssey at the cinema. Which I haven't yet seen. How?
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