2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning. Name that tune. The one you can hear if you stop, right now, the one playing on your mental sound system.(beat)All week, for me, since a Carol Service last Sunday, it

2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. For some people this can be a very difficult time. As Giles Fraser said yesterday, for them it will be a blue Christmas. Yet there is also something in the air at Chr

2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Last Tuesday afternoon, a woman from the neighboring parish knocked on my door with a poster. I expected it to be publicity for their Carol Service. But no, this was different. &ld

2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

She is a beautiful, graceful, tennis champion, a world class athlete, and role model for millions of women around the world. And yesterday in America, tennis ace, Serena Williams,

2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The account of Ali Alsaho whose wife and seven children drowned in the sea off Western Turkey last week was unbearable. “The smugglers are traitors” he said “they

2015-12-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

In the coming week we will put the final touches to our preparations for Christmas. One part of that Christmas story is the exchanging of gifts emulating God’s gift to humani

2015-12-16 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning. Coldplay released a new album this week, A Head Full Of Dreams, but the lyrics of one song, Kaleidescope, have been around for quite a while.'This being human is a g

2015-12-16 所属栏目:英音听力材料

From many quarters, and even from within his own party, Donald Trump has been widely condemned for saying he believes that Muslims should be banned from entering the United States.

2015-12-16 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.Streets turned into rivers and homes into swamps, businesses destroyed and lives devastated.Our prayers are with all of the victims of the floods in Cumbria and beyond

2015-12-11 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2015-12-09Good morning. The photo shows a man and his wife standing at a window looking forlornly out at the water high up the side of their house. It may be now recedi

2015-12-09 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The news that France's far-right National Front party led by Marine le pen has made big gains in the first round of regional elections, has been met with both surprise and shock.

2015-12-09 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Next week, the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is expected to shatter box office records and adverts and merchandise are everywhere - adding to the anticipati

2015-12-09 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. December - another year closing.The annual audit of nights and days, forcing us to admit how the passage of time accelerates as we age.Glance back over 12 months and

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Whatever side of the issue of air strikes they were on, everyone agreed that there were excellent debates on Wednesday in both the House of Commons and the Lords- at

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning!Pope Francis is in trouble again. Flying back from his tour of Africa he was asked by a journalist about the role of contraception in tackling AIDs. The Church, of cou

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Today’s debate about the rights or wrongs of air strikes against ISIS, will be focussed on what constitutes a just and proportionate response to ISIS atrocities in Paris and

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Yesterday my attention was drawn back to France, but for very different reasons.Recently, the Association of Mayors of France has called for a ban on cribs depicting the Nativity i

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The cathedral was hushed in a vastness of pitch black. From so far away it was hard to believe we could quite hear it, a lone voice pricked the night. Come, Emmanuel: my favourite

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

We were a small group, fewer than ten, and only one of us didn’t have a bus pass tucked away somewhere. As usual, part of our meeting involved talking about people and situat

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Today has been designated 'Buy Nothing Day' in over sixty five countries. By now, of course, it might have spread even further afield.I like the idea of 'Buy Nothing Day', not

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Earlier this week we heard a report from a team of archaeologists which said that the legends about Glastonbury had no historic basis. The monks of the medieval abbey

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

When invited to a radio programme on the theme ‘what does God think of us, my jaundiced contribution was:’ If God had human emotions they would be of utter bewilderment

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

I was 11 years old the day I stepped out of a Woolworth’s store in 1963, with my pockets stuffed with stolen paraphernalia, and felt a hand on my shoulder. Petty theft had be

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Yesterday I found myself deep in cognitive dissonance.With memories of Paris and Mali still fresh in the mind, and with Brussels in lockdown fearing another terrorist outrage, we h

2015-12-06 所属栏目:英音听力材料

When a baby girl tested negative for ebola in Guinea earlier this week, many allowed themselves to hope: no new cases in six weeks, and the epidemic which has claimed more than 11,