GCSE English RevisionPod
RevisionPod - English revision made easy.Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEvery week, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie bring you a dose of high energy revision to help you achieve the best possible marks in your English GCSE's. Each episode will look at a different question from your set texts and explore how we would analyse the language and contextual factors and how you can then use this knowledge to boost your essay writing. Click on the bio of each episode to download your GCSE RevisionPod handout, complete with the question we are discussing, the quotations and vocabulary we use in the pod and some extra contextual information.
Episodes
79 episodes
Last Minute Literature RevisionPod
Episode summary: Some last-minute tips to help you guys with the final stretch of your revision. In this episode, we look at the main skills that turn grade four essays into grade six essays, and grade six essays into grade eight or nine...
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TRAILER FOR BONUS EPISODE - 'My Name is Leon' episode 4 (of 4) - Leon and Maureen
Episode summary: In this episode we explore the complexities of the relationship between Leon and Maureen and the challenging lines their bond must traverse. Like all great characters, Maureen has many dimensions to her character and thi...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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1:09
BONUS - 'My Name is Leon' episode 4 (of 4) - Leon and Maureen
Episode summary: In this episode we explore the complexities of the relationship between Leon and Maureen and the challenging lines their bond must traverse. Like all great characters, Maureen has many dimensions to her character and thi...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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21:47
'My Name is Leon' episode 3 (of 4) - Tufty
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: In this episode, we look at the complexity of the...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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23:31
'My Name is Leon' episode 2 (of 4) - Is Leon an admirable character?
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: In our second My Name is Leon episode, we look at ...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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27:33
'My Name is Leon' episode 1 (of 4) - A happy story?
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: We take on a brand new text for your revising pleasure toda...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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24:06
BONUS - 'Romeo and Juliet' episode 10 (of 10) - Time
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: Our tenth episode on Romeo and Juliet means that we are st...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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TRAILER FOR BONUS EPISODE - 'Romeo and Juliet' episode 10 (of 10) - Time
To listen to the rest of this episode, subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: Our tenth episode on...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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'Romeo and Juliet' episode 9 (of 10) - The Friar
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: A dear friend in your time of need, or a traitor and a cow...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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25:36
'Romeo and Juliet' episode 8 (of 10) - Fate
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: Fate... the idea that everything is predestined, that the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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25:42
'A Christmas Carol' episode 9 (of 9) - The Supernatural
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: Can you become a better person without the help of four sp...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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28:51
BONUS - 'A Christmas Carol' episode 8 (of 9) - Social Message
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: You can't really write about A Christmas Carol without get...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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28:13
TRAILER FOR BONUS EPISODE - 'A Christmas Carol' episode 8 (of 9) - Social Message
To listen to the full episode, don't forget to subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeYou can't really write about A Christmas C...
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'A Christmas Carol' episode 7 (of 9) - Hope
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeHope is a beautiful thing. It rings through Dickens' novella like the bells of Chri...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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29:39
'Romeo and Juliet' episode 7 (of 10) - Change
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeA change is as good as the rest, they say. But is that true for our star-cross'd lo...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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27:10
TRAILER FOR BONUS EPISODE - 'Romeo and Juliet' episode 6 (of 10) - The Nurse
To listen to the rest of the episode, don't forget to subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeAn unlikely character question? Per...
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BONUS EPISODE - 'Romeo and Juliet' episode 6 (of 10) - The Nurse
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeAn unlikely character question? Perhaps, but one that may unlock interesting ideas ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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26:08
'A Christmas Carol' episode 6 (of 9) - Happiness
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: Happiness, the key to a long and... happy life. In this ep...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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27:22
'Macbeth' episode 6 (of 6) - Attitudes to the Supernatural
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: In this episode of RevisionPod, we look at Macbeth and Ban...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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26:33
'Romeo and Juliet' episode 5 (of 10) - Death
Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: A nice cheery one for you today, listeners, as we explore t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:08
TRAILER FOR BONUS EPISODE - 'Macbeth' episode 5 (of 6) - To what extent is Macbeth a hero?
To listen to the rest of this episode, subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: The best essays wil...
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BONUS EPISODE - 'Macbeth' episode 5 (of 6) - To what extent is Macbeth a hero?
Episode summary: The best essays will move around a text and show a detailed understanding of the work as a whole. And you will need to be able to do this to ace this question. Can a man who murders his king be called a hero? In order to...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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29:13
TRAILER FOR BONUS EPISODE - 'A Christmas Carol' episode 5 (of 9) - Death
To listen to the whole episode, don't forget to subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeEpisode summary: Death, deat...
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