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    <title>Taiwan Driving Licence, Step by Step</title>
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    <description>Everything the Taiwanese licence process asks of you, in the order it asks for it. Whether you can skip the exam entirely by exchanging a foreign licence, the twelve thousand dollars a driving school charges for something the law does not require, the residence-card rule everyone reads backwards, the test that quietly blocks your booking, and what the examiner is actually marking on the circuit. Every number checked against the official sources, and where the sources disagree the episode says so instead of picking one. Written and produced by Celia Rozalén, who sat these exams.</description>
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    <itunes:summary>Everything the Taiwanese licence process asks of you, in the order it asks for it. Whether you can skip the exam entirely by exchanging a foreign licence, the twelve thousand dollars a driving school charges for something the law does not require, the residence-card rule everyone reads backwards, the test that quietly blocks your booking, and what the examiner is actually marking on the circuit. Every number checked against the official sources, and where the sources disagree the episode says so instead of picking one. Written and produced by Celia Rozalén, who sat these exams.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>You passed, now what</title>
      <description>You passed. Both halves. This episode is the short one, about the counter, the card, and the one piece of admin that catches people years later when they have long stopped thinking about any of this.</description>
      <itunes:summary>You passed. Both halves. This episode is the short one, about the counter, the card, and the one piece of admin that catches people years later when they have long stopped thinking about any of this.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The riding test, item by item</title>
      <description>This is the episode I would most want a friend to hear before their test.</description>
      <itunes:summary>This is the episode I would most want a friend to hear before their test.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The written test</title>
      <description>I need to start this episode with a warning, because this is the part of the process where the information you will find online is most likely to be wrong.</description>
      <itunes:summary>I need to start this episode with a warning, because this is the part of the process where the information you will find online is most likely to be wrong.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Exam day, hour by hour</title>
      <description>This is the episode about the shape of the day. Not how to pass anything, just what happens and in what order, so that nothing on the day is a surprise.</description>
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      <title>Booking a slot without wasting the trip</title>
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      <itunes:summary>You do not just turn up.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The test that blocks your booking</title>
      <description>Here is a thing that is not in most guides, that the booking system will not warn you about in advance, and that stops people cold on the day they try to reserve their exam.</description>
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      <title>The paperwork, and the ARC rule everyone reads backwards</title>
      <description>This episode is about the boring half hour that decides whether your exam day happens at all.</description>
      <itunes:summary>This episode is about the boring half hour that decides whether your exam day happens at all.</itunes:summary>
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      <title>The fee sheet, and the twelve thousand you can skip</title>
      <description>This is the episode that pays for the time you are spending on this whole season.</description>
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      <title>Do you even need to take the exam?</title>
      <description>Before you spend a single hour studying, there is a question worth asking, and almost nobody asks it first. Do you actually need to take this exam at all?</description>
      <itunes:summary>Before you spend a single hour studying, there is a question worth asking, and almost nobody asks it first. Do you actually need to take this exam at all?</itunes:summary>
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