Welcome to Rick’s bite-sized English, a podcast for advanced English speakers who want to develop their skills, confidence, and range of language. They are based around stories and in each episode you’ll get a practical phrase that you can take away and use in your day-to-day English. Each episode is short, between five and ten minutes long, so you can easily incorporate them into your routine.
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A reflection on what the sea has meant to the narrator at various points in his life, and how this compares with the lives of others around him.
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9 Jul 2026
Season 3; 05 – The House with Two Numbers
A man feels watched as he arrives in a new town and struggles to find where he is supposed to be staying.
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2 Jul 2026
Season 3; 04 – My Other Self
Our narrator has mixed feelings about how he was repeatedly mistaken for a famous dancer.
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25 Jun 2026
Season 3; 03 – Where the Foreigners Stay
A couple travel across the border by bus and stay in an eerily quiet town, where the hotel has no guests and the museum few exhibits, among other unsettling discoveries.
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18 Jun 2026
Season 3; 02 – The Café that Changed its Name
After many years absence, our narrator returns to a favourite place, only to find that things have changed and many people seem not to have noticed.
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11 Jun 2026
Season 3; 01 – The Boy at the Back
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8 Jun 2026
Season 3 Trailer
A quick preview of what’s coming in Season Three of Rick’s Bite-Sized English.
11 Jul 2025
Season 2; 06 – Changing Tastes
n a quiet lakeside town where the ferry rarely sails and the clocks don’t quite agree, two men reflect on how time and chance have shaped their lives.
4 Jul 2025
Season 2; 05 – After the Applause
n a quiet lakeside town where the ferry rarely sails and the clocks don’t quite agree, two men reflect on how time and chance have shaped their lives.
27 Jun 2025
Season 2; 04 – This one’s on me!
n a quiet lakeside town where the ferry rarely sails and the clocks don’t quite agree, two men reflect on how time and chance have shaped their lives.
20 Jun 2025
Season 2; 03 – Strangers on a Train
n a quiet lakeside town where the ferry rarely sails and the clocks don’t quite agree, two men reflect on how time and chance have shaped their lives.
13 Jun 2025
Season 2; 02 – The Keeper of Memories
n a quiet lakeside town where the ferry rarely sails and the clocks don’t quite agree, two men reflect on how time and chance have shaped their lives.
6 Jun 2025
Season 2; 01 – The Man who Stayed
n a quiet lakeside town where the ferry rarely sails and the clocks don’t quite agree, two men reflect on how time and chance have shaped their lives.
24 May 2025
Season 2 Trailer
Here’s a quick preview of what’s coming in Season Two of Rick’s Bite-Sized English. This season, there are six new episodes, six new stories and lots of useful language. Each episode comes with two worksheets to help you take things further (sign up to my newsletter to get the worksheets). Sign up to the newsletter […]
6 Dec 2024
06 – The Wait
06 – The Wait How a long and agonising wait led my friend to a life in Japan. A story about how we used to write long letters, and how the postman or postwoman played an important role in our lives.
29 Nov 2024
05 – The inspirational cook
05 – The inspirational cook How I came to love Indian food A story about my developing interest in and love of Indian food, and a useful phrase you’ve probably heard but not necessarily noticed. This will be really useful for talking about situations where you haven’t got what you need or want. I’ll show […]
22 Nov 2024
04 – Mind the Gap – a cautionary tale
04 – Mind the Gap – a cautionary tale An amusing story about a man who finds himself in an embarrassing situation, with a large crowd laughing at his misfortune and showing no sympathy for him. We look at a useful phrase and show you how you can try to incorporate this into your productive […]
22 Oct 2024
Trailer: Rick's Bite-sized English
Are you an advanced English speaker?
Do you sometimes wonder why your English doesn't seem to get much better?
Do you enjoy listening to engaging stories?
Then Rick's bite-sized English is for you!
The episodes of Rick's bite-sized English are short and practical. This lets you fit them into your routine; listen while travelling to work, or on your coffee break, or even while you are brushing your teeth. In less than ten minutes you'll get an engaging story with rich, authentic language and you'll also get a piece of language which you may not have noticed before. I'll draw your attention to this and give you the opportunity to incorporate it into your spoken English.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to my website: https://ricksbite-sizedenglish.com (https://ricksbite-sizedenglish.com)
Credits
- Producer and Host, Richard Winterbottom (mailto:%20ricksbitesizedenglish@gmail.com)
- Music by Miles Lavelle Golding
- Design by Alex Winterbottom
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