Daily Chiofta

Daily Chiofta episodes

May 28, 2020 Sugar at the BBC
We arrive at the BBC on a cold snowy winter and file in one by one filling out name tags. Sugar is last...the rest is history.
4 min
May 27, 2020 The Golden Larynx
A tale of one of the greatest singers of all time, Stelios Kazantzidis.
6 min
May 26, 2020 Accent...such a funny thing
My first experience of teaching taught students and me how to connect in a better way.. Accents, don't you just love them...
5 min
May 25, 2020 The King of the Chioftes
Georges der Parthogh my dear friend taught me two key things...never judge a book by its cover and a chiofta a day keeps the doctor away.
7 min
May 24, 2020 Pissy Pissy Meaow Meaow
A tale about the cat statues outside the Carera building in Mornington Crescent.
4 min
May 23, 2020 A Gringlish Encounter Famagusta 1968
My first encounter with Gringlish as spoken by my mum to my aunt in Famagusta 1968
5 min
May 22, 2020 Ameoba Ameoba my Kingdom for an Ameoba
A true confession from a surviving vinyl addict
6 min
May 21, 2020 The Origins of "Charlie"
Where does the term "Charlie" come from
6 min
May 20, 2020 Wagdi a taxi driver in Egypt
The day a taxi driver called Wagdi saved our lives in Port Said, Egypt.
6 min
May 19, 2020 I got 1 of those - laptop DJs
The art of DJing in the digital age.
4 min

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