The Pronunciation Studio Pogcast

The function words TO and THE tend to change in connected speech if a vowel follows them. But increasingly young English speakers are not changing the words and using a glottal stop before a following vowel instead.
Could we even get an intrusive r in there? It's all in this episode of the pog.

Sir David Attenborough can make anything sound interesting. How does he do it?
It's all about two areas of intonation: TONE (pitch movement) and TONALITY (chunking speech). 
In this episode, and to mark his 100th birthday I explore his unique delivery and compare him to that other internationally famous ageing RP speaker: King Charles III.

After a recent video comparing RP (Received Pronunciation) with SSBE (Standard Southern British English) several viewers commented that SSBE sounds more similar to GA (General American). 
Why do people hear this? Are there any features that stand out? That's what I explore in this episode of the Pog.

Approximants are sounds that sit somewhere in between vowels and consonants. They are widely referred to as "semi-vowels" or "semi-consonants", and they are strange in many ways. 
In this episode I explore 10 weird things about approximants with an actual list:
1) The name APPROXIMANT
2) Double articulations of /r/ and /w/
3) Silent letters
4) J ≠ /j/ 
5) Rhoticity
6) Intrusive /r/
7) Dark l
8) Diphthongs
9) Devoicing
10) Tapped /r/
I also answer a question about cockney /r/.

The English plosive consonants /p,t,k,b,d,g/ are made by fully blocking air as it leaves the body. 

Although they have strong spelling to sound relationships, they are a little bit tricky in pronunciation with processes including aspiration, affrication, glottalisation and many assimilations. 

In this episode I explore these sounds and processes, and answer a question about the ending of the word ORANGE.