2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning. (Apologies for the voice – it comes from being Welsh on the morning after.) Poetry… is having a moment. After the shootings in Orlando last month, thousands of peop

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Paul Fussell in his book The Great War and Modern Memory conjures a farmhouse in Picardy hours before the Somme attack, where men from the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry stoo

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

“How long, O Lord, how long?” is the three thousand year old cry of a Hebrew poet – not an expression of misery from England football fans. It is a cry that burns in the heart a

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good Morning,It is said that in times of great uncertainty people pray more, so we can assume the lines are jammed right now. And with a recent report, from the Thinktank Theos, su

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

It is easy to feel dismayed, confused and anxious over what we are witnessing in our political life at the moment. Not only is there a real sense of political vacuum but some have

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning,The question about our role in the world and whether we want to be in the EU or not, has thrown up an internal question about the cohesiveness of our own society. The

2016-07-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

So much happening, and so fast. A history-changing event - the pound falling, markets in turmoil; talk of independence for the UK, independence for Scotland; a new incumbent for Nu

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Voices at the British Medical Association's annual conference have suggested that employees should be able to self-certify sickness for up to two weeks rather than o

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. We’re just past the Summer solstice, the longest day of the year, which coincided this year with the June full moon, the strawberry moon as it is called. From now on

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

When Major Tim Peake returned from the international space station on Saturday, he yearned to see his family, as well as for a pizza and a cold beer. He’d been crammed, along with

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning,Regardless of how illustrious our lives, it is highly likely that the sermon at our funeral will take no longer than five minutes. A life summed up in five minutes! So

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

‘She woke up every day and said, How can I change the world?’ recalled a colleague.Jo Cox, we’re told, ‘crackled with energy, fizzed with life.’ With time for everyone, the ri

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. The whole country has been shocked by the violent death of Jo Cox and it is very proper that this should be marked by a suspension of referendum campaigning and cance

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.Over the last few days, Sikhs around the world have been marking an important anniversary, namely the death of the 5th Guru. It's a moment which changed the community

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. Yesterday marked 100 years since the funeral of Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. On the 5th August 1914, the day after Britain declared war on G

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

It's International Pride Month and the murder of 50 people at an Orlando gay club is a shocking reminder of how Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people remain incredibly vul

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. The tragedy of those of who were killed or injured in an act of terrorism at the Pulse nightclub followed just two days after the fatal shooting of singer Christina G

2016-06-24 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Well the opening match has been played, the sticker albums are being filled, the sweepstakes organised, and football mania is well and truly with us for the next few weeks during E

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-10Good morning. In one of the best known stories about the Queen she is speaking to a person whose mobile phone then starts ringing. Pausing briefly, the Queen

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-09Often, when meeting people for the first time, we present particular aspects of our identity in search of a personal connection. Who will we be in their eyes?

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-08Good morning. In spite of all the debate, including last night’s, none of us know precisely what will happen after June 23rd. There are many predictions

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-07Listening to the debate on organ transplants yesterday, reminded me of a friend who is currently waiting for a donor kidney and the enormous impact his curren

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-06Good morning. Twenty years ago football came home in Euro 96, and in the coming weeks, even fifty years of hurt will not stop me dreaming that Wayne Rooney li

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-04We often use the news to keep us up to date with the frequent changes in societal boundaries. Whether they're geographical, political or familial the trend h

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-03Good morning. Employers should be free to ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves at work if they have a general policy barring all religious and political