Podcasts: pub

Colin Beaven is Spotlight's British columnist. We can always count on him to give insight into life in the UK and to make us laugh at the same time. Listen to an excerpt of his column, titled "When opera comes to the country".

British English has a lot of unkind or sarcastic expressions used to describe someone from the upper-classes. In this excerpt from Peggy’s Place, you’ll hear three of these words: snob, toff and nob. Listen.

Every month, on Spotlight Audio and in Spotlight magazine, we visit Peggy's Place, a London pub. This month, Peggy's husband, Phil, has gone out on a quick trip to the late-night supermarket around the corner and not come back.