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
61 episodes
A Christmas Carol episode 7 - Hope
Subcsribe 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
A Christmas Carol episode 6 - The Supernatural
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeCan you become a better person without the help of four spirits? Perhaps so, but it...
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Episode 6
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28:51
A Christmas Carol episode 5 - Social Message
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeYou can't really write about A Christmas Carol without getting into Dickens' social...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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29:01
Macbeth episode 5 - To what extent is Macbeth a hero?
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeThe best essays will move around a text and show a detailed understanding of the wo...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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30:01
Romeo and Juliet episode 7 - Change
Subcsribe 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
Romeo and Juliet episode 6 - The Nurse
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeAn unlikey character question? Perhaps, but one that may unlock interesting ideas f...
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Episode 6
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26:56
A Christmas Carol episode 9 - Happiness
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeHappiness, the key to a long and... happy life. In this episode we look at the many...
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Episode 9
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27:22
A Christmas Carol episode 8 - Death
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeDeath, death and more death. But does it have to be as gloomy as all that? Mr Forster and...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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27:21
Macbeth episode 6 - Attitudes to the Supernatural
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeIn this episode of RevisionPod, we look at Macbeth and Banquo's contrasting attitud...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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26:33
Romeo and Juliet episode 5 - Death
A nice cheery one for you today listeners, as we explore the theme of death in Romeo and Juliet! Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:08
AQA Language Paper 1, Question 3 - Life of Pi
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeThis week, we use the same extract to look at how the writer has structured the tex...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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18:26
AQA Language Paper 1, Question 2 - Life of Pi
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeIn this episode, we take you through how to analyse the writer's use of language fo...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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22:05
Romeo and Juliet episode 4 - Juliet
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeMerry Christmas and a Happy New Year, revision podders! We hope you enjoy this epis...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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33:36
An Inspector Calls episode 9 - Eric
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe9 episodes! 9 whole episodes--you lucky, lucky revisers! This week we look at Eric,...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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25:21
An Inspector Calls episode 8 - Mr and Mrs Birling and pride
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeThis episode we look at the role of pride in the older Birling's failure to learn P...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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29:24
An Inspector Calls episode 7 - Gerald
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeWe explore how Gerald, in spite of having some fragments of good within him, ultima...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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25:01
An Inspector Calls episode 6 - Gender
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeWe look at how through the depiction of Eva Smith and, to a lesser extent, Sheila, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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29:17
Macbeth episode 4 - Bravery
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeWhat does it mean to be brave? Neither Mr Forster nor Mr Gallie have much of an ide...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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23:33
A Christmas Carol episode 4 - Social Responsibility
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeWe explore the way Dickens presents the disastrous consequences, both for ourselves...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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26:04
Jekyll and Hyde episode 4 - The difference between Jekyll and Lanyon
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeTwo men of science, and yet so different... but also very similar. A man who sees h...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:34
Macbeth episode 3 - Morality
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeMerry Christmas and a happy New Year. We hope you have all had a fantastic festive ...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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28:38
Love and Relationships episode 2 - ‘Follower’ and ‘Mother Any Distance’
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeTwo poems today that explore the changing nature of parent child relationships, fea...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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30:52
Love and Relationships episode 1 - 'Winter Swans' and 'Neutral Tones'
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribeWelcome back podders! After a beautiful summer break, we hope you are all ready to ...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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31:23