Current-ish Ep3. Exam results, early release, and the possible end of two marriages
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Current-ish Ep3. Exam results, early release, and the possible end of two marriages

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 14, 202628 min

Lucy Porter is joined by Vittorio Angelone, Jake Bhardwaj, and Susie McCabe to talk all things current-ish events. Are exam results important? What should we do about early release? And what happened at Edinburgh airport? Hosted by Lucy Porter Written by Lucy Porter, Ruth Husko and Katie Sayer with additional material by Mike Shephard Producer - Katie Sayer Assistant producer - Molly Punshon Executive producer - Victoria Lloyd A Mighty Bunny production for BBC Radio 4

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Hello, I'm Lucy Porter and welcome to Currentish, the show that takes the news by the hand and gently asks it, you okay, hon? This week we're coming to you from the city of Edinburgh! Yeah Edinburgh, the birthplace of modern economics, although we won't hold that against them.

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Once again I'm joined by a panel of brilliant comedy minds eager to impress me with their effortless command of the week's biggest and silliest stories. To be fair I'm not easily impressed. The last time I was impressed was by a man who could fit a whole mini tub of Pringles into his mouth at once and, listener, I married him. Please will you welcome my

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amazing panel, Vittorio Angeloni, Jake Bhardwaj and Susie McKay! Now this week exam results came out in Scotland and the rest of the UK follows next week. Scottish exam results operate on the same principle as the Scotland World Cup squad. They're out a good few weeks before England.

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