English with Frazer - LEARN NATURAL BRITISH ENGLISH
Jul 10, 2026 · 16 min · 8 segments
In this episode, Frazer tells you why despite the hot weather in the UK, nearly every house does not have air conditioning. British English podcast. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
[gentle music] Essentially, Britain was never built for heat.
For most of the last a hundred years, British summers have been fairly mild.
Now, if you asked someone fifty years ago what summer felt like in Britain, they would probably say, "Mm, a comfortable twenty to twenty-five degrees.
Occasional warm spells.
As always, plenty of rain here or there.
Very few extremely hot days." Now, if your country rarely experiences extreme heat, then why spend thousands of pounds installing air conditioning? Simply put, for the majority of time in the UK, air conditioning was not necessary.
Instead, people opened windows.
They used fans.
They waited for the weather to cool down, especially in the evening, because usually it would cool down in a day or two.
We'd have the occasional really hot day, but two or three later-- two or three days later, that period has passed.
[gentle music] Essentially, Britain was never built for heat.
For most of the last a hundred years, British summers have been fairly mild.
Now, if you asked someone fifty years ago what summer felt like in Britain, they would probably say, "Mm, a comfortable twenty to twenty-five degrees.
Occasional warm spells.
As always, plenty of rain here or there.
Very few extremely hot days." Now, if your country rarely experiences extreme heat, then why spend thousands of pounds installing air conditioning? Simply put, for the majority of time in the UK, air conditioning was not necessary.
Instead, people opened windows.
They used fans.
They waited for the weather to cool down, especially in the evening, because usually it would cool down in a day or two.
We'd have the occasional really hot day, but two or three later-- two or three days later, that period has passed.
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