2016-02-02 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-28Conspiracy theories: don’t we love ‘em? It’s said the US Government staged nine eleven. Or the Palace, Diana’s death. Or the Nevada de

2016-01-26 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-26Good morning. Tomorrow is the centenary of The Military Service Act which brought conscription into the First World War. Many people listening will have had r

2016-01-26 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-25In the mid 1990s when I lived in Krakow I was brought to a Hasidic graveyard in a village not far from Auschwitz. Had I not been told that it was a graveyard

2016-01-26 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-23Good morningHow many passwords do you have? And do you remember them at all, or like me, find that not only have you forgotten one of your many passwords but

2016-01-26 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-22Good morning. This week satellite images were released which showed that Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery has been destroyed by IS militants. St Elijah

2016-01-26 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-21Good morning. Researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon, one of whom spoke on this programme yesterday, suggest that the stories of Beauty and the Beas

2016-01-26 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-20It's been a bad week here South Wales, with news that 750 people are losing their jobs at the Port Talbot steelworks. In the mid-70s over 60,000 people worke

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-19The last country I visited where I couldn’t speak the language was Poland. Yes, most people spoke in English and communication was hardly a struggle but

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-18Over recent days we have witnessed some of the most intricate diplomacy. The announcement that Iran had met its initial obligations under the nuclear agreemen

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-16Good morningSir Philip Dilley has stepped down as Chair of the Environment Agency after spending part of the wettest December on record in Barbados whilst hun

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-15Good morning. Just as I’d completed a script for this programme late yesterday afternoon, news leaked from Canterbury that the Episcopal Church in the U

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-14In the early hours of yesterday morning, President Obama gave his last State of the Union address.
It's always a difficult speech, with time running out to

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-13Speaking to friends since David Bowie's death, I've noticed that each of us has woven him into a very personal story of our lives and what we care about. So

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-12Social media posts can become international incidents. Over the past month, Wheaton college, an evangelical Christian college in Illinois has become the centr

2016-01-22 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-01-10Good morning. I wonder if there’s somebody you love very much but disagree with profoundly on something that’s deeply important to both of you. Th

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good MorningLate on Thursday evening an excellent documentary on BBC1 described loneliness as a silent epidemic of our times. The Age of Loneliness focussed on case studies reflect

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. All the talk this week about the Shadow Cabinet reshuffle has made me think a lot about loyalty. We invoke loyalty frequently as a virtue and yet it’s complex a

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morningI'm going to admit that I didn't manage to read all of The Poems of TS Eliot ahead of the anniversary of his death this week. The two thousand and thirty two page new

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. There are often cases of industrial action that may not affect us personally. But, the series of strikes of junior doctors planned to start next week may impact if no

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. We’re five days into the New Year. How’s that New Year’s resolution working out for you? Half of us make New Year’s resolutions, but apparentl

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good MorningIn what seemed an act of self-effacement on the part of Radio 4 last Wednesday Justin Webb told listeners affected by the stormy weather to tune into their local radio

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Earlier this week on this programme, a senior adviser to the ride-sharing company, Uber, predicted that fewer and fewer of us will own cars in the future as we make more use of che

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

It doesn't seem that long since we were doing this last year: looking back at the old and wondering what the New Year will hold. Many people in my part of the world will be hoping

2016-01-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

As Christmas is nearly here, I guess most of us know where we’ll be on the day; at our church, we will be holding a lunch on Christmas Day for all comers – and I’

2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning,At the weekend newspapers ran the headline that politically correct universities were killing free speech. The latest casualty is the statue of Cecil Rhodes one of the