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Aug 2021
1h 4m

Roger Bennett on his English Adolescence

Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward
About this episode
Roger Bennett, author of #1 the New York Times bestseller (Re)Born in the USA and co-host of the popular Men in Blazers podcast, shares the hilarious and painful experiences of his English adolescence of the 1970’s & 1980’s. He discusses what passed as sex-ed at that time, what it felt like to be a (very) late bloomer and when was the moment everything chang ... Show More
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