Sam talks to Natalia about an independent magazine called THE FENCE for forty minutes, because who is honestly going to stop him?
THE FENCE is a quarterly magazine based on life in the UK and Ireland, featuring fiction, deep-dive investigations, and cultural essays. Sam talks to Natalia about the articles featured in Issue 29 of THE FENCE. Remember when we were watching all of Nolan's films? No, neither do we.
Topics of conversation include calling postmen 'post-people', Soho, ELO, the death of print media, why nobody is reading anymore, THE NEW YORKER reporting on 9/11, Gloucestershire, William Boyd, TV guides, EASTENDERS in Poland, Andy Burnham's first job at TANK WORLD, Mandy Burnham, "I am a female police officer, and I find that offensive!", Rupert Lowe and a pub crawl in Great Yarmouth, right-wing pub culture, the Cotswolds, gas prices in the US, the perfect funeral, SHREK 5, crazy seagulls, Taylor Swift hate, fighting Stanley Kubrick, Facebook pages for dead people, Bundesliga, Miss Great Britain, the fifth Beatle, and Princess Diana.
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Learning British is a weekly show hosted by Sam Brown, a born-and-bred Brit, and Natalia Brammen, a Polish immigrant living in the UK. In each episode, Sam introduces Natalia to a new piece of British culture, media, or history, from badly aged sitcoms to cancelled celebrities.
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