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Michelle: Hello and welcome to On the Town. I'm Michelle. Helen: And I'm Helen. Michelle: In today's programme, we'll be travelling to the deepest, darkest South Pole! Helen: Hang on Michelle! We're not really going all the way to the South Pole. Wha
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Helen: (Almost whispering) Hello and welcome to On the Town, I'm Helen. And I'm here with Neil. Neil: (Whispering) Hello. Neil: (Still whispering) Helen, tell me something Why are we whispering? Helen: 啊，你还不知道我为什么说悄悄话？
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To celebrate Chinese New Year, a group of top singing and dancing talents from China performed at the O2 centre in London. It's a rare chance for British audiences to experience Chinese culture through music and dance. Helen from BBC Learning English
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Happy Valentine's Day! If you ask most Londoners to think of a romantic city they are unlikely to suggest their own. But there must be some places in London that are perfect for a quick kiss and cuddle, or just walking hand in hand! Join Jackie on th
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In this week's On the Town, Helen meets Lord Wei, who is the third Chinese peer. Peers sit in the House of Lords, which is part of the UK parliament. How do you become a lord? What's it like working in an institution with almost a thousand years of h
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Like many people, Helen is afraid of spiders. That's unfortunate because in this week's On the Town she and Neil find out about a cape and a scarf that have gone on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The clothes have been made from
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Have you ever seen a panda? If you have, it was probably in a zoo, not on stage. And it almost certainly wouldn't have been doing kung fu! But in this week's On the Town, Rosie and Helen go to see a kung-fu drama called The Magical Beijing Tour of Pa
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It is often said that Chinese is one of the most difficult languages for English speakers to learn. But the ten UK finalists of the Chinese Bridge competition have defied this belief. They spoke with such accuracy and fluency that anyone who couldn't
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Will and Li talk about a true story with a happy ending: the successful rescue of a group of 33 miners in Chile in 2010. They were brought to the surface in a tiny capsule called Phoenix-2. The images were broadcast all over the world in 2010. When t
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In this special edition of On the Town, Yang Li and Alice do a traditional Easter activity - they go on an Easter Egg hunt. But this Easter egg hunt is a little different from normal. Famous artists and designers have decorated 200 eggs which were or
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Excited Harry Potter fans are in for a treat with the opening of a new visitor attraction in London. Muggles and would-be wizards are now able to tour the studios where the famous Harry Potter films were made. Rob and Helen tell us more about this ne
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The London Book Fair has seen its biggest ever event in Earls Court this week. What's more, China took centre stage with over 200 Chinese publishers attending. But why has there been so much interest in China from the UK and the rest of the world? Jo
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Its cargo once consisted of tea, gunpowder and buffalo horns, but in 2007 the Cutty Sark was severely damaged by a huge fire. Five years later, the famous tea clipper has been fully restored and is open for London tourists to climb aboard. Jen and He
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Whitby's charm draws plenty of visitors to the northeast coast of England, but twice a year there is a change in the clientele. The Irish novelist Bram Stoker was inspired to write Dracula when he came to Whitby in 1890 and its influence has turned i
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五月九日是英国国会开幕大典。仪式不仅庄严而且隆重，成千上万人簇拥在议会大楼外等待女王到来，气氛热烈。 It was definitely the grandest of Parliamentary occasions when the Queen arrived at the Palace of W
