This book you hold in your hand belonged once to a very celebrated Pirate. He was so celebrated that the newspapers—of that time—always said nice things about him, and always knew…

1 The only thing I really regret is, is not having had the courage to talk to a girl I met at a party last summer. I really liked her…

I went for a job interview at a lawyer’s office. There were two of us waiting to be interviewed - me and a man about the same age as me…

It felt like two hot knives were stabbing me in the back-- right into my kidneys. It was a burning pain-- unavoidable. As my mind scanned this area of my…

Good morning. My name's Erica Matthews, and I'm the owner of Matthews Island Holidays, a company set up by my parents. Thank you for coming to this presentation, in which…

One of the first things I noticed in Valencia is that people eat out a lot. They spend a lot of time in cafes. You find people having breakfast or…

4 I was being interviewed for a job and the interviewer asked me, “What animal would you like to be reincarnated as?” So I said a cat because it was…

3 When I was applying for a teaching job in Korea, they were doing the interviews by phone because I was in the US. And because of the time difference,…

(I = Interviewer; M = Mum; D = Dad; A = Andy; S = Sarah)   Part 1 (00:55–02:38) Sarah’s parents I: So, you’re going to meet Sarah’s boyfriend tomorrow.…

Stephen: In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up. I looked at my watch. It was two o'clock in the morning. The TV was off! But how? There…