{"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":"Rude emails","slug":"rude-emails","published_at":"2026-07-02T08:19:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308/rude-emails","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/6-minute-english-60308","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nwb7hm","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0nwb722.mp3","summary":"What is the rudest email you have ever received? We all deal with emails on a daily basis, but sometimes people can write them too quickly, without thinking enough about how it makes the other person feel. Is there anything that people write in emails which you find impolite? And have you ever sent a rude email yourself...? Phil and Becca 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-260702 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 rudest email you have ever received? We all deal with emails on a daily basis, but sometimes people can write them too quickly, without thinki…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":394,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/6-minute-english-60308/episodes/rude-emails/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/rude-emails.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}