Break Time, with Clare Balding

Available for over a year

Each week on their podcast Teach Me A Lesson, Greg James and Bella Mackie receive a lesson on a different subject from one of the UK's best teachers. Teach Me A Lesson: Break Time is their BBC Sounds-exclusive companion series, where they take things a bit easier, reading out listeners' emails and chatting to celebrity guests. In this first episode they're joined by long-term fan of the pod Clare Balding, who talks about how she turned her academic career around from a disastrous start, and how terrified she was of choosing her own clothes for non-uniform day. Listeners' stories this week include what it took to get a whole class put in detention, and an awkward recollection of one school's "snogging area".