2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.Last weekend saw protests at a gurdwara in Leamington Spa. Protestors objected to the wedding of a Sikh woman to a Hindu man as it would involve the Sikh ceremony of t

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Yesterday, I took my son to school dressed as Willy Wonka, a few streets away from where Roald Dahl, himself, went to school in Llandaff. The playground was full of children dresse

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Last week around 1.5 million Muslims travelled to Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage. This is a demanding trip but which the faithful see as a journey of inspiration and a

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning,Ten weeks ago a good friend of mine was checking something on a roof when he fell thirty feet to the ground. He received a serious head injury and remains in hospital

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

I wish I'd been at Tate Modern on Sunday night when a 120 metre long wooden reconstruction of London in 1666 was set alight to mark the 350th anniversary of The Great Fire of Lond

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Over the weekend we heard the bishop of Grantham, Nicholas Chamberlain speak to the media about being gay, and his relationship with his partner of many years which he describes as

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning. The family who lived in our place before us, cultivated a great vine over forty years, bursting, about now, with the bitterest grapes.The grapes enriched our compost

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

When I was a student, one of my tutors who was not religious at all had some words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta on his wall. They were these: “The greatest disease in the West tod

2016-09-19 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. A few days ago the broadcaster Jeremy Vine posted a video that portrayed him cycling down the centre of a one-way street in Kensington, and being first tailgated, the

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

I suspect like many listeners, I feel torn, hearing the news that all Russian athletes could be banned from the Olympics, not just those found guilty. We all agree doping must be r

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.According to the Chief Inspector of Prison in his annual report published on Tuesday, there is, despite the ‘sterling efforts’ of many in the prison service, ‘a sim

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. On Monday night prime minister, Theresa May answered: Yes, she would be willing to authorise a nuclear strike that could kill 100,000 civilians. That, she explained,

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Dying is the one thing that somebody else cannot do for you - so argued the philosopher Martin Heidegger - and because of this, he said, facing death is the thing that most picks u

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good MorningMomentous events of the last few weeks seem to have rained so thick and fast that it’s hard to keep up. Whilst the aftershocks of the referendum and its consequences h

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning.Like many of you, I’m sure, a cloud of overwhelming hopelessness enveloped me yesterday as the shocking consequences of what President Hollande referred to as “viole

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

When the Cameron family walked out of Downing Street for the last time on Wednesday, I detected the odd tear from the children. That’s hardly surprising; this was the place they’

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.New political administrations sometimes begin in great euphoria. When Tony Blair first entered Downing Street in May 1997 there was heady rhetoric about the ending of

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The 17th century poet John Dryden, reflecting on democracy wrote ‘Nor is the people’s judgement always true,
The Most may err as grossly as the Few’.Many on the ‘remain’ side

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

My clergyman grandfather was talking to a woman in a hat. After a while he said he’d enjoyed meeting her and hoped to meet her husband too. “You are my husband,” she said. I bla

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning,The radio is on in the background and they’re talking about a leadership election getting ugly and you half listen because it’s not an unimportant event, but you sti

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

There's a phrase which has become commonplace at the conclusion of a debate or report on a significant disaster – whether that be a rail accident or a financial collapse. And thi

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

As the long fasts of Ramadan end with Eid, I almost hesitate to use the word celebrate this year. It’s been a terrible few days in the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks in

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

In the recent media coverage of the bravery of those killed on the battlefields of WW1, I was particularly moved by a piece in the Times by Daniel Finkelstein about the courage of

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. When I was a university professor every student in the class would do an evaluation at the end of the semester. Reading the evaluations was best done after a stiff wh

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

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