Transatlantically Speaking

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Transatlantically Speaking

James Van Leer and guests discuss all things Yank and Brit in a lively new show covering news, sport, the arts and more from both sides of the Atlantic.

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    TS 130 Nootella?

    M(o)ustache, Spider, Nutella, Great Escape, Dunkirk.

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    TS 129 Battling Battery Bunnies

    Battery Bunnies, Dumplings, Clashtag, Listener Mail

  4. 97

    TS 128 Treacle!

    Molasses, Treacle etc; Sam takes the quiz.

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    TS 127 Actually, There Are Lots Of Spoons

    Spoons, Listener Mail, Cel-Ray Soda.

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    TS 126 Tilted Kilts, Alphabetti Spaghetti

    The Tilted Kilt, Irish Time (Will-o-the-Wisp), Gobstoppers, Alphabet Soup, Dolmio Italian, Listener Mail

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    TS 125 How To Speak American

    Listener Mail (Jeff, Beth, Jochen, John K, My Dad), Cocker Takes The Quiz.

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    TS 124 Soda Sommeliers

    Soda Sommeliers, Captain Birdseye vs Gorton's Fisherman, Listener Mail.

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    TS 123 Quarterly Losses

    Surrender Quarter, Bear (Teddy Edward Theodore), Banoffee Pie, Listener Comments (Bumfluff, Gyro), Trumpton.

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    TS 122 The People vs Open-Faced Sandwich

    Open-Faced Sandwich, "Your-Name-Here" Land, Products With Different Names.

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    TS 121 Dandelion & Burdock

    Three's A Crowd, Patti, Black Man's Pinch, Dandelion & Burdock, America Was Named After An Englishman, Panama Canal "The Price Is Right", Dustmen, Jochen Writes (Tommies vs Jerries), Domnhall Gleeson.

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    TS 120 Future Sex Math

    Awe/Caulk, Listener Mail (John, Randy, Ed, Rafael), Lily takes the quiz.

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    TS 119 Knee Cymbals!

    Xmas Card Photos, Yankee Swap, One-Man Band.

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    TS 118 Have A Meowy Catmas

    Christmas Crackers, Ghost Trains, Listener Mail (Raphael, Ed Lee, John Killey, Mollie Bowling), Jon takes the quiz.

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    TS 117 I See London, I See France

    Icing v Frosting, Underpants, Australian Accent, Isle of Man, Brylcreem Boys.

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    TS 116 999 Letsby Avenue

    Go Queenie! Knocked Up and Going Potty, 999 Letsby Avenue (Jokes Only Brits Get), John Killey Letter (Manx Stuff.)

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    TS 115 One Each End And Steady As We Go

    Crunchie redux, Fictional Companies, my "Buick" pronunciation, Right Said Fred, SWALK, Jeff Crick letter, Mack letter.

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    TS 114 Honeycomb (And Other Lies)

    Ed Lee (Jamie Foxx, Code-Switching, Fishes,) John Killey (Commonwealth, Kaffir,) Reveille, Irene (Fork-Switching, The Ashes,) Honeycomb.

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    TS 113 Extracting The Michael

    Pronouncing "Aunt", Canadia, The Trouble With "The", Taking The Piss.

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    TS 112 The Art Of Blending In

    Stage names, the Hokey Cokey (Pokey), letter from Canada, the Ed Files (southern accent), blending in.

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    TS 111 The Goode Olde Dayse

    World Cup wrap-up, Letter from Kevin in Oregon (how to tell if you're an American), List of olde tyme stuff.

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    TS 110 From My Cold, Dead Van

    Womens' World Cup, Jochen letter (soccer, knife/fork thing, royals) dad letter, Cocker takes the quiz.

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    TS 109 The One-Drop Rule

    Feeble excuses, Periscope, my stupid name, things we done as kids, the Rachel Doleza story.

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    TS 108 Johnson Tubes Your Cave

    Belize debrief, Sports!

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    TS 107 Johnson's Big Blue Hole

    New Princess, Kentucky Derby, Star Wars Character or NFL Prospect, British Honduras.

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    TS 106 Je Vais Chez Le Dentiste

    Nikki Lauda and James Hunt, Hot Cross Buns, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Dontists.

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    TS 105 These Go To (Legs) 11

    Magnus Pyke, British Bingo Calls, Spot The Ball, my bro's nice email.

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    TS 104 Guns and Hair Pins

    Time Change, British Mother's Day, Jackson 5, Goon Show, Green Fingers/Thumbs, Mum Takes the Quiz.

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    TS 103 Like A Diamante Cowboy

    Soccer/Football, Pop Rocks/Space Dust, Crocodile/Alligator, Krispy Kreme Klub, Cocker takes the quiz.

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    TS 102 Mail Enhancement

    Black History Month, More Chocolate Drama, Listener Mail

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    TS 101 Let's Talk Dangly Things

    Zealand, Name Over-Thinking, Wagon Wheel vs Moon Pie, Creme Egg Fuss, Flat White, Trams etc.

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    TS 100 We're 100!

    Polystyrene, Stylophone, Names Pronounced Differently, backronyms.

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    TS 099 The Future Is Now!

    Back To The Future 2, Tonka Toys and Prince, Red Vines vs Twizzlers.

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    TS 098 A Christmas Quickie

    Christmas Crackers, Bleating, Foreign Animals.

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    TS 097 Kicked in the Bunyans

    Vol-au-vents, black liquorice, listener mail, Sam takes the quiz.

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    TS 096 Lens Flare Edition

    Yosemite and Yellowstone, Thanksgiving football, KPCC steals our ideas again, American phrases Brits don't understand Greek honors rant.

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    TS 095 Happy Yorksgiving

    Yorkshire Pud, Sirie Home Depot debacle, Fings Ain't What They Used To Be, Morecambe & Wise

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    TS 093 French Barbarian Comics

    Trip chat, Cocker takes the quiz.

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    TS 092 Earth, Neutral, Live

    Downtown, Voila, Young Ones "Dallas", Cricks (British Plugs.)

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    TS 091 Like, Totally Bitchin'

    Johnson's Mexico Story, My Voltage Adaptor, We're Away for the Mid-Terms, California Accent.

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    TS 089 Did I Mention I'm Sick?

    Scottish Result, Letters from Amy (ABC Song) and LaToya (London Stuff)

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    TS088 Whatever, Scotland.

    Scottish independence, U.S products banned in other countries.

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    TS 087 The Delicious Bald Eagle

    Letters from Chris Morris and Beth Kent.

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    TS 086 Where Fish Go in the Summer

    Advertize/Exercise, Fish Camp, Letter from Lisa, Scott Takes the Quiz.

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    TS 085 Snacks: The Great Divide

    Football's back, "apricot" pronunciation, Andrea letter (blending in), Irish people try American snacks, Americans try Irish snacks, dodgy product names.

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    TS 084 Our Friends to the North

    Magical negro, Americans know nothing about Canada, questions Americans need to answer immediately, guessing Australian slang.

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    TS 083 Punctuation and Strippers

    Crick clarification, Data, Mollie, American name formula, Jochen punctuation, Sam takes the quiz.

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    TS 082 Kancakes!™

    Listener letters, (Beerbon, Pancake Day in Liberal, KS), Triptease, Cocker takes the quiz.

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James Van Leer and guests discuss all things Yank and Brit in a lively new show covering news, sport, the arts and more from both sides of the Atlantic.

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