2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. On this day, seventy years ago, a group of scientists and soldiers at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico saw something that no one had seen before. They had

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

With autumn well and truly here, it’s easy enough to look upon the darkening days ahead with a sense of dread. Summer feels like a distant memory, and unlike the recently departed

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. There are times when, quite properly, words fail. When the only response is a stunned, appalled silence and a shared grief. In the sensitive and moving worship progra

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning, 50 years ago the film Cathy Come Home was broadcast on BBC1. Directed by Ken Loach it told the story of a young woman’s descent into poverty and homelessness and was

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

As Jews around the world celebrate Succot, or Tabernacles, this week, we are instructed in the Book of Deuteronomy, “You must rejoice on your festival and be very happy.”Now, how

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Over the weekend Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaimed that the victory bell has rung and the operations to liberate Mosul have begun." Liberating Mosul from IS is being seen a

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

On Friday last I found myself as a Catholic in a part of Belfast that was both geographically and culturally new to me. I had been invited to speak to the topic of identity and com

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

It was sad but still inspiring to hear of Jessica Ennis-Hill’s retirement this week. She is a national treasure, iconic of so much that was good about the Olympics, and perhaps of

2016-11-20 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. It was more than twenty years ago that I first learnt of the great disparity in health and life expectancy between different parts of the country. What shocked me the

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.It's not often a recipe can offend an entire nation, but Jamie Oliver appears to have come pretty close with his 'twist' on paella. By adding chorizo, he caused a T

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Later today in Rome nineteen pairs of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from around the world will be commissioned to work together in joint mission. Nothing of thi

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morningA government report released last week has revealed that the number of adoptions has fallen by 12%, compared to the previous year, and the decline is expected to contin

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The tragedy that is the civil war in Syria continues to play out, with hopes dashed of ceasefires and ever-more violence delivered on the civilian population. Not even the humanita

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning.Tomorrow thousands of people of all ages will enjoy playing in Sunday league football matches across the country. And there’s the now hugely popular 5 and 7 aside soc

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

This past summer my wife and I visited New Zealand. It is a beautiful and mysterious country. We walked miles of wild uninhabited coastline, rainforest and the famous West Coast bl

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

In 1934, an eleven-year old Shimon Peres made the journey from Wiszniew - in what was then Poland - to British Mandate Palestine. His grandfather, Rabbi Meltzer, came to the train

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. We’re told that one in three of us check our smartphones in the middle of the night. How ludicrous, I thought, until I realised I’d done it myself. Not often, since

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morningIt’s not been a good year for unity.We’ve had the EU referendum, The Conservative and Labour parties have been riven with acrimonious disputes, and the Church of Engl

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

As we’ve been hearing this morning we’re in the midst of the political party conference season; we’ve already had the Liberal Democrats and the Greens; and Labour is in Liverpoo

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning.Whenever people ask me where I’m from – and I say Hull – I’m now used to the variety of expressions that result. Usually, I can see them thinking “where on earth

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning,Since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced that they are to separate because of ‘irreconcilable differences’ much has been made of what those differences might be

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Over 80% of Mexicans self-describe as Roman Catholic. Yet Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a priest. On Sunday evening, after Mass, two priests were

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. This week the Financial Conduct Authority has forced a pay-day loan company to repay ￡35 million to customers for unfair practices. Meanwhile Wonga, another pay-day

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. UKIP’s new leader, Diane James, regards the recently re-elected President Putin as one of her political heroes. She admires him, she says, because, he is a ‘strong

2016-10-07 所属栏目:英音听力材料

For the last two days, many people in Glasgow have been seeing things they'd never seen before.This has not been due to ingesting illegal substances or overdosing on Scotland's n