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OFF TOPIC #3: Beata Holeckova (Communism, Religion and British Culture)

OFF TOPIC #3: Beata Holeckova (Communism, Religion and British Culture)

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Beata is an English teacher to foreign learners, the author of "The Sickle and The Crown" and "Beyond English", and is an emigrant of communist Czechoslovakia, raised by a family tightly engrained in the communist regime.


Episode Contents:

  • Growing up under a communist regime.
  • Why does Michael Heseltine have a statue of Lenin in his garden?
  • Would integration into the UK have been harder if she was a person of colour?
  • The English language and British culture through the eyes of non-English speakers.
  • What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
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