Usually, we’re explaining English to each other. This time, US panelists are desperate to understand the largely UK art of panto, a kind of stylized broad style of show, popular around Christmas, full of stereotypes and archetypes, risquÃ© and beloved by children and adults.
Look behind you!
Glenn Fleishman with Kathy Campbell, Alice Fraser, Chris Phin and James Thomson

Usually, we’re explaining English to each other. This time, US panelists are desperate to understand the largely UK art of panto, a kind of stylized broad style of show, popular around Christmas, full of stereotypes and archetypes, risquÃ© and beloved by children and adults. Look behind you! Glenn Fleishman with Kathy Campbell, Alice Fraser, Chris Phin and James Thomson

12: A Pantomime Is a Terrible Thing To Waste

The United Kingdom and America are two countries separated by the same language, George Bernard Shaw never said, and we’ll be proving that in this podcast. We gather Incomparable panelists from the UK and America, as well as Canada and other English-speaking regions, and try to explain to each other the distinctions between biscuit and cookie, lemonade and fizzy water, public school and, er, public school, and why when we put our pants in our boot, we mean something altogether different.

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