2016-04-04 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-04-01One of the things I envy about the Victorians is their ability to talk about death....and to do that from an early age.That's something very apparent in hymn

2016-04-04 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-31Yesterday the Howard League for Penal Reform published its concerns that children in care homes, legally defined as, “looked after” are being disp

2016-04-04 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-30Good morningWe’ve heard this news many times before, too many times. In these last weeks I have felt pain, anguish and heartbreak when hearing of the te

2016-04-04 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-29Good morning. The ghastly bomb blast in Lahore, which a Taliban splinter group claims was aimed at Pakistani Christians, is a painful reminder that there are

2016-04-04 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-28When I got back from the Easter celebrations in Wakefield Cathedral yesterday I had no idea what was about to happen in Lahore with the deliberate targeting o

2016-04-04 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-25Good morning. For me one of the best and most challenging parts of Canterbury Cathedral is the number of memorials to past Archbishops. There are saints and,

2016-03-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-23Good morning.It is, I think, a sad truth that though yesterday’s dreadful atrocities in Brussels shock us, they don’t actually surprise us. Of cou

2016-03-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-22Good morning. Barack Obama has become the first sitting US president to visit Cuba for nearly nine decades. For 58 years, since Fidel Castro and Ché Gu

2016-03-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-21I am not going to find this an easy week. Holy Week, when Christians walk with Jesus and his friends towards what he knows will be a death. Their journey begi

2016-03-28 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-19Good Morning. As the buses trundle by and passing pedestrians look on quizzically, tomorrow morning I’ll join a hundred others in the garden of our pari

2016-03-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-18Good morning. The latest figures show that the number of people sleeping on our streets has more than doubled over the last five years. At the last count ther

2016-03-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-17Good Morning on this St. Patrick’s Day.This year’s celebrations may be somewhat special, for later this month Ireland will mark the centenary of t

2016-03-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-15Yesterday HM the Queen, now her 90th year, attended the Annual Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey. As Head of the Commonwealth, her commitment and

2016-03-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-14Good morning. The evening of Sport Relief on Friday will celebrate all of the walking, running, swimming and cycling - with the help of Frank Spencer, Smithy

2016-03-21 所属栏目:英音听力材料

I wonder which song you dusted off this week, either in your own mind, or in your record collection, when you heard that George Martin had died.It might not have been the Goons&rsq

2016-03-13 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-11Good morning. A few years ago one of my grandsons, who was a keen tennis player, was thrilled to meet Maria Sharapova. He, like millions of other tennis fans

2016-03-11 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-10On Tuesday evening I attended an event in Archbishop’s House in Westminster where three religious leaders sat down together to discuss how they live as

2016-03-11 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-09Good morning.Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified a likely cause of multiple miscarriages. Women who have recurrent miscarriages – m

2016-03-11 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-08The news that Royal Navy vessels are to be sent to the Aegean to curb the activities of people smugglers has much to commend it, but for some, it masks the fa

2016-03-09 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-05I write a daily thought for Lent, in which I’ve been encouraging my readers very simply to take a little more time to pause, and breathe, during their b

2016-03-05 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-04Good morning. The results of the Iranian elections came in this week showing some modest advances with more women elected than ever before. For me it brought

2016-03-05 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-03Good morning. Within the decades of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the bombing in Omagh was particularly shocking in its murderous wanton evil. Now, with t

2016-03-05 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-02Following the Counter Terrorism and Security Act, British universities now have a statutory duty to ‘have due regard to prevent people being drawn into

2016-03-05 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-03-01I guess that a lot of us will at some stage today buy something. We might not visit a shop; it might be an online transaction, or an impulse buy from the phon

2016-03-05 所属栏目:英音听力材料

BBC Radio 4 2016-02-29Good morning. We’re about a third of the way of the way through Lent and if you’re anything like me, you’ll already have let yourself down.