In this episode, we’re back home on Sunday in the late afternoon.
There’s the smell of roast potatoes in the air, gravy bubbling on the stove, steam on the windows, someone shouting for more Yorkshire puddings from the other room.
I talk through these memories of the British Sunday roast: a meal woven into our national story.
This episode is a warm plate of tradition, comfort, and class history from medieval feasts to factory families to vegan gravy in a French bar on a rainy day.
If you’ve ever missed the taste of a meal from home, this one’s for you!

🧠 Today We Learn:
Vocabulary: Food & Cooking, Home, Comfort & Family Life, Informal & Colloquial Expressions, Sensory Language
Grammar: Left dislocation for emphasis or clarity by placing the topic at the start of the sentence, followed by a pronoun that refers back to it, Ellipsis in coordinate clauses to avoid repetition and create more natural, flowing speech by omitting repeated words in joined clauses, Negative question tags to seek agreement or confirmation in a conversational, often rhetorical way, Inferred conditionals to suggest a conditional idea without using the word if, creating a more subtle or idiomatic tone.

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