A Thing They Don't Teach You At School: Recent Episodes
A Thing They Don't Teach You At School
Schools are rubbish. Most people grow up confused and unprepared. There are so many things you have to figure out yourself, and some people never do. Co-hosts Lindsay Sharman & Laurence Owen don Gove's discarded education hat and create the kind of syllabus that would have actually helped them as grown-ups. Each episode, a new guest expert joins them to tell them what they should have learnt, but didn't.
Episode 2 finds Laurence and Lindsay chatting to the disturbingly sexual Ed O'Meara about what new lesson he would introduce into their mythical school. Ed is a historical comedian, but his radical (and faintly unnerving) new take on teaching History would take students further than just dates and facts.
Episode 1 finds co-hosts Laurence Owen and Lindsay Sharman chatting to philosopher, lecturer and occasional comedian Charlie Duncan Saffrey about Logic. Charlie argues that being taught Logical thinking at school would improve relationships, encourage people to walk out of terrible movies, and stop James Blunt from having his feelings hurt. Listen to find out how...