{"podcast":{"title":"6 Minute English","slug":"6-minute-english-60308","podcast_index_feed_id":60308,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02pc9tn.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9tn","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0hxqkd0.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":341,"summary":"Learn and practise useful English with clips from programmes around the BBC. Each week, we talk about an interesting topic and learn helpful words and phrases used in natural spoken English - all in 6 minutes! Practise your listening and hear natural spoken English. Find more at https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us at https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T16:21:30.638359+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308"},"episode":{"title":"How advertisers make us spend money","slug":"how-advertisers-make-us-spend-money","published_at":"2026-06-11T11:17:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308/how-advertisers-make-us-spend-money","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nrcjdn","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0nrcdc1.mp3","summary":"What was the last thing you bought? And can you remember why you bought that particular thing, rather than something else? We all like to think we make rational, independent choices when we buy things, but advertisers are constantly trying different strategies to influence us to behave differently. Pippa and Phil discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Listen to natural English conversations with Real Easy English: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/real-easy-english Learn English from the news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/learning-english-from-the-news_2026 Get a free worksheet, quiz and transcript for this episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2026/ep-260611","meta_description":"What was the last thing you bought? And can you remember why you bought that particular thing, rather than something else? We all like to think we make ra…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":395,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/6-minute-english-60308/episodes/how-advertisers-make-us-spend-money/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308/how-advertisers-make-us-spend-money.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}