[From The Vault 🔐] Penny Dreadfuls | “The Victorian Video Game”
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[From The Vault 🔐] Penny Dreadfuls | “The Victorian Video Game”

B2Upper-intermediateApril 30, 202624 min

From The Vault 🔐 — normally a member-only episode, unlocked this month for everyone. -- In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed high in the Andes. Stranded in freezing mountains, the young survivors faced hunger, avalanches, and a terrible moral choice. It would become one of history’s greatest survival stories. 1972 Andes plane crash of Uruguayan rugby teamNavigation error; early descent; crash into mountainSurvivors shelter in plane body; bitter cold at nightStudent doctors treat injuries with improvised toolsMelting snow for water; radio says search is cancelledStarvation leads to agreement to eat the...

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I'm Alistair Budge and today we are going to be talking about something called the penny

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A penny is, as you may know, the smallest denomination of the British pound.

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I'm Alistair Budge and today we are going to be talking about something called the penny dreadful. A penny is, as you may know, the smallest denomination of the British pound. And dreadful means awful, very bad, terrible.

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