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Science fiction is one of my favourite genres of books and movies. I like the kind of science fiction that shows what the future might look like on Earth. Science fiction movies like Star Wars are OK but they are full of strange creatures and things

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Callum: Hello today we have the third programme in our series on culture and inter- cultural communication: Who on Earth are we? In this programme Marc Beeby looks at language and culture. Heres Marc Marc: Hello. Today we begin our look at the build

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Here is a very small piece of fiction from Ruth Forman. It's titled Bars on Windows. The window covered with rusted black iron bars looked like jail, he thought, though he'd never been to jail. He wondered when exactly the bars were added. They didn'

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Self-Driving Cars: Science Fiction Future Is Near The high-tech company Google has a fleet of self-driving cars, which had logged 480,000 kilometers by August. Major auto manufacturers in the United States and Europe also are working on the technolog

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The Art of Fiction

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In the podcast today, we will talk about fact and fiction. A fact is something which is true; something which I, or someone else, can prove to be true. For instance, it is a fact that the earth is round. And fiction is the opposite of fact. It means

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