{"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 do we describe smells?","slug":"how-do-we-describe-smells","published_at":"2026-08-27T09:16:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308/how-do-we-describe-smells","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0p6j3xx","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0p6j2hz.mp3","summary":"What is the worst smell in the world? And what is the best smell? Are there any smells that you like, but that your friends or family hate? Smells are all around us all the time, but the English language is often quite general in the way it describes smells, as opposed to other senses like sounds or tastes. But why is this? Neil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Get a free worksheet, quiz and transcript for this episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2026/ep-260827 Practise your listening with The Listening Room here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the_listening_room Subscribe to our newsletters here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599","meta_description":"What is the worst smell in the world? And what is the best smell? Are there any smells that you like, but that your friends or family hate? Smells are all…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":397,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/6-minute-english-60308/episodes/how-do-we-describe-smells/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-do-we-describe-smells.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}