Bookmarks
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Bookmarks

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 26, 202628 min

Because Terry LOVES books, we do an annual Bookmarks episode. This one is from 2024. There’s never enough room to include all the great stories we find in our research books. So this episode is dedicated to all those stories that didn’t fit into our regular episodes. The theme is “bravery” - and we’ll talk about how a brave goaltender revolutionized hockey, how Larry David routinely ignored studio executives, and we’ll salute the bravery of Lucille Ball. We know you want to listen to all th...

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Is Subliminal Advertising Real? Superman or Batman? Best Canadian City to do a book event? Best ad of the past year?

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