6 Minute English
Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Thursday.
Episodes (630)
Can you keep a secret?
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Bitter food, better health?
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Talking at the table
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Eating for two
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Dancing for the brain
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Nudges: The secrets of persuasion
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Why sitting is bad for health
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Why everyone loves the underdog
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Disability in music and theatre
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What makes a great library?
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Sewing to fight period poverty
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Plastic waste eaten by enzymes
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Feed your brain
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Food for new mums
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Fighting loneliness with soup
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What is the future of work?
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How the language of menus matters
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The psychology of greed
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Addicted to sugar
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Our love of pets
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Sexism: Female farmers fighting back
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Learning lessons from the Moon
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Could we live without plastic?
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Invasive species: Why don't we eat them?
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What and where is Little Italy?
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Social media and teenage health
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Mystery flying objects
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Elephant-proof farming
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Episode 2.1
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Episode 1- Phrasal verbs with "Get"
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Ways to live for 100 years
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Mushrooms: Medicine or myth?
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Saving dead languages
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Sounds that make you want to scream
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How fans talk about their passions
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Making male friends
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Space-saving solar hacks
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The stories behind our names
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Heatwaves - can we adapt?
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Are you unhappy at work?
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Do you have eco-anxiety?
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Can we stop natural disasters?
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The right way to say sorry
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Could you live on wild food?
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Plants fighting pollution
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Should we fear chatbots?
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Is it wrong to eat plants?
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Sonic seasoning
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The benefits of doing nothing
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The art of subtitling
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