This week, we're examining the very British habit of apologising - and the little old ladies find themselves in 'a sorry state of affairs', this week's idiom…

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This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:

Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

We also used the following sounds from Freesound:

cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK

and

Thunder Clap OWB KY 441x16.wav by Dave Welsh

These works are licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.