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Weekly Wrap: Below, Carrie, and remembering Sass Jordan
Music journalist Annie Zaleski, pop critic Sandra Mills, and film critic Kaiya Shunyata join the Group Chat to dig into Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller ‘Below’ and Prime Video’s new adaptation of the Stephen King classic ‘Carrie.’ Also, they remember the late Canadian singer and songwriter, Sass Jordan and the blueprint she set for women in rock music.
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 87% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 198 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 134 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Hey friend, Ellemeen Abdul-Mahmoud here. Look, if you're anything like me, maybe you're constantly looking for new podcasts. Well, I have a recommendation for you. It is Sounds Good, CBC's podcast newsletter. You'll get some new show recommendations and you'll be treated to some behind the scenes footage
of some of your favorite shows. Subscribe to Sounds Good, CBC's podcast newsletter at the link in the description. And also, just sounds good. I'm so grateful for those people because they listen to everything, so you don't have to. This is a CBC Podcast.
Look, it's October. Look out the window. It is clearly spooky season. And for that, we have a couple of new kind of scary shows that are out now.
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