2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-02Good morningOne news story this week will have struck fear- and perhaps something a bit less generous - into the hearts of parents everywhere. The killing of

2016-06-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-06-01Jesus Christ Himself would be banned from speaking at today’s universities – if they took literally Home Office anti-terrorist guidelines, aimed a

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-31Unless you were listening to this programme yesterday, you might not recognise the name of Sarah Guppy. You might be equally unaware of the Daughters of Zelop

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-30Good morning. Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, and while historians continue to debate whether it was stalemate or victory for eith

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

My eye was caught by two news items in close succession. The first was about a law case being taken out in the United States against the makers of those fitness trackers you wear o

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning.This week, a play called Incognito opened in New York. The script is by Nick Payne, who's been hailed as the new Tom Stoppard, our giant of intellectual theatre. It f

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning. There are now nearly as many people in England and Wales who profess to having no religion as those that say they have – according to an analysis by Stephen Bul

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

The architect argued that his was the oldest profession, since the first thing Man did was find a cave. The gardener disagreed, citing Adam’s as even earlier, before Man need

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

Good morning and welcome to Becket week, so branded by the Hungarian Embassy to mark the arrival in London today of a relic of St. Thomas Becket’s from Esztergom in Hungary w

2016-06-01 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-21When Gautama, the man history knows as The Buddha, died two-and-a-half thousand years ago his followers faced a question. Was he really dead and gone - this p

2016-05-23 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-20Good morning, though there isn’t much that’s good about it for the families and friends of those who died on EgyptAir flight MS804, as a massive s

2016-05-23 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-19Today in Berkeley, California, is Malcolm X Day. Schools and other municipal buildings are closed, to honour the1960's, Civil Rights Activist. Malcolm X is a

2016-05-23 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-18Good morning. Robots are increasingly a part of our everyday lives, so it’s no wonder that the London Science Museum is planning a major exhibit of auto

2016-05-23 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-17Yesterday for its World on the Move day, the BBC broadcast a series of conversations about migration and return. It made me think of my own journey to the UK.

2016-05-18 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-16Good morningPerhaps this weekend you’ve been enjoying the annual Eurovision bubble – or perhaps you’ve been avoiding it – either way,

2016-05-18 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-14When Pope Francis announced on Thursday that he is going to set up a commission to look at whether women should be deacons in the Catholic Church, a lot of wo

2016-05-18 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-13Good morning, on a day the superstitious are said to fear – Friday the 13th. There’s even a word for the state of anxiety this date generates &nda

2016-05-18 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-12Good morning.Who would dare to condemn corruption? Anyone who does is in danger of finding a finger pointed back at them telling them to put their own house i

2016-05-18 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-11This evening, many British Jews are celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. We drink, dance, and debate the direction and politics

2016-05-18 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-10Good morning. Last week saw the local elections, now we have seven weeks of EU referendum to look forward to. It can feel as if the loud, angry cycle of polit

2016-05-17 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-09Good morning. In a moving interview on the eve of the Invictus Games, Prince Harry has spoken about how his childhood memories of his mother are fading, and r

2016-05-17 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-07Good Morning. A while ago the rock band Radiohead recorded a song called 'How To Disappear Completely'. This week they tried to do just that.Their website f

2016-05-17 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-06My earliest memories of children with Down’s syndrome still embarrass me.They were given a name which I would rather not repeat. They were dressed in gr

2016-05-17 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-05Today is not just Election Day – in the Christian calendar it is also Ascension Day. This is the day when, according to the Acts of the Apostles in the

2016-05-17 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-05-04As the sun goes down over the Mediterranean this evening Yom Ha’Shoah begins. It’s what we here call Holocaust Memorial Day - but in Israel. And t