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Feb 2021
Harrogate students and teacher star in BBC podcast
Two Harrogate students and their politics teacher have featured in the latest episode of the BBC podcast Americast.
Pippa Linden Howe and Hannah Reinsch, who are year 13 students at the St Aidan's & St John Fisher Associated Sixth Form, joined teacher Emily Reynard as guests on the programme hosted by Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis.
It was released on Friday and is available to download for a year.
The BBC invited them on the show after Pippa and Hannah emailed the hosts asking to take part.
They discussed US politics with Sopel and Maitlis during the podcast.
Pippa said it was a "dream come true" to appear on the show.
To keep up with the dizzying rollercoaster of stateside politics, Miss Reynard encourages students to listen to podcasts. Sopel, the BBC's North America editor, described the teacher as 'inspiring'.
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Miss Reynard, who has taught history and politics at St Aidan's since 2015, praised the students for their performance on the show.
She added:
Pippa has received an offer from Oxford University to study languages this year and Hannah plans to study politics but has yet to decide which offer to accept.
Miss Reynard said studying politics at A-Level gave them a good grounding.
She added:
Miss Reynard said the unpredictability of politics over the past few years had made it a "cool" subject to study.
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