"I don't know why, but it's just seems funny. It doesn't seem that there's a real aggression behind it," he says of Parisians' attitude to rude people. "Most people in my experience, absolutely lovely delight from polite." But when you get the angry people, then there's quite a lot of them,. They are, they are, there's nothing, there was nothing pleasant about that bloke".
Special Guest Mark Steel joins me to discuss cultural and linguistic differences between the UK and France, plus accents in the UK and a little tour of some places in the UK that you don't know about. Also includes a discussion of swearing and rude language in Britain. What is the R word which you should never say in a specific part of the UK? Listen on to find out.
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