Live audio and Podcasts
These are links for the podcasts, but you can also click on the ‘listen’ button on each site without actually subscribing to the podcast.
BBC World service podcasts http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice
• 60 Second Idea to Improve the World (5’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/forum60sec
• BBC 6-minute News www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/.../sixminute/
• Witness - history as told by the people who were there. (8’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/witness
• Science in action (18’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/scia
• BBC Global News (31’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/globalnews
• BBC4 Best of • BBC Digital Planet (‘Click’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/digitalp
Radio 4 podcasts http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4
• Best of today – business news & analysis (8’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/today
• A Brief History of Mathematics - Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. (15’)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b
• A History of the World in 100 Objects (15’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow
• What the Papers Say - What The Papers Say takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news (15’) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wtps
American radio
• www.wabcradio.com New York based news / talk radio. Many commercials. Good exposure to American accent and idioms. Click on the ‘Live listening’ button.
Online news with video and audio features
•The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk and http://www.guardian.co.uk/audio
•The Independent www.independent.co.uk
•The Economist www.economist.com
• The International Herald Tribune www.iht.com
• The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com
• The New York Times www.nytimes.com + http://www.nytimes.com/pages/podcasts/index.html
• USA Today www.usatoday.com
• Slate http://www.slate.com/
• CNN http://us.cnn.com/ for articles and videos at http://us.cnn.com/video/
• CBS News & CBS Evening News http://www.cbsnews.com for articles and videos
• Sky News – television live and on-demand http://news.sky.com/home/video
