8 Podcasts for Fluent English: Advanced English Listening

By Speak English With Vanessa

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Vanessa suggest her 8 favourite podcasts that will help improve your listening at an advanced level.

Comedy from BBC Radio 4

By BBC iPlayer Radio

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Download the best new comedy from Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, The Now Show, Dead Ringers and The Museum of Curiosity.

PODCASTS: History Extra

By BBC History Extra

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Our History Extra podcast comes out every week, featuring interviews with notable historians talking about topics ranging from crusading knights to Tudor monarchs and the D-Day landings. It's free to listen to, and all the past editions of the podcast, going back to June 2007, are still available online for you to download.

PODCASTS: Science Focus

By BBC

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The latest news from the team behind BBC Focus Magazine - a popular UK-based science and technology magazine.

Podcasts: The Reith Lectures

By BBC Radio 4

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A series of annual radio lectures on significant contemporary issues, delivered by leading figures from the relevant fields. Archive 1976-2012. Brought to you by BBC Radio 4.

Podcasts: Click

By BBC Radio

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Technological and digital news from around the world. Brought to you by BBC World Service.

Podcasts: BBC Science in Action

By BBC Radio

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Science in Action is a regularly-updated series of science podcasts from the BBC World Service.

Podcasts: This American Life

By This American Life

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This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners. It is also often the most popular podcast in the USA, with another 2.5 million people downloading each episode.

There's a theme to each episode of This American Life and a variety of stories on that theme. Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay. There's lots more to the show but it's sort of hard to describe. Probably the best way to understand the show is to start at our favorites page, though we do have longer guides to our radio show and our TV show. If you want to dive into the hundreds of episodes we've done over the years, there's an archive of all our old radio shows and listings for all our TV episodes, too.

Podcasts: The Tim Ferriss show

By The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Tim Ferriss show is generally the #1 business podcast on all of iTunes, and it’s been ranked #1 (of all 300,000+ podcasts) on many occasions.  It is the first business/interview podcast to pass 100,000,000 downloads, and it has been selected as iTunes’ “Best of 2014,” “Best of 2015,” and “Best of 2016” (most downloaded).

Each episode, I deconstruct world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use.  This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.

Prior guests include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Foxx, Edward Norton, Tony Robbins, Maria Popova, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Amanda Palmer, Malcolm Gladwell, Rick Rubin, Reid Hoffman, Jon Favreau, Whitney Cummings, Mike Shinoda, and dozens more.

TED Talks (audio)

By Feedburner

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Each year, the TED Conference hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. These podcasts (available also in video) capture the most extraordinary presentations delivered from the TED stage. Each week, we'll release a new talk to inspire, intrigue and stir the imagination. For best effect, plan to listen to at least three, start to finish. (They have a cumulative effect.) If you have a curious soul and an open mind, we think you'll be hooked...

Podcasts in English

By podcastsinenglish.com

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Podcasts in English are not just listening activities for efl and esl students to improve their conversation. The worksheets and transcripts provide valuable English language lessons and improved learning opportunities for those who learn English and teach English at all levels.

Podcasts: The English We Speak

By BBC Radio

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Every week, we look at a different everyday English phrase or piece of slang in this fun three-minute programme. From BBC World Service.

Podcasts: Voice of America

By VOA

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Learn American English and much more with captioned news reports that are read at a slower speed. The Voice of America website also has  vast library of podcasts on a multitude of interesting topics at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels of English.

25 BBC Podcasts for high-level English learners

By Online TEFL Training

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The BBC has a fantastic collection of podcasts. Some of them are produced for an international audience so you can hear interviews with non­native speakers of English. These are usually found on the BBC World Service channel.

Other podcasts are produced for a UK audience. These are ideal for those of you living in the UK or who want to live in the UK. Listening to British English speakers will make understanding English which is spoken in the UK easier. These are produced by BBC Radio 4 or Radio 5.

Here is a list of podcasts which may be useful for higher­level English learners.

Using podcasts to improve your English

By Independent English

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Sandy Millin from Independent English answers the questions Why? and How? with regards to using podcasts to improve your English.

Using podcasts to develop listening skills

By Teaching English (British Council)

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Podcasts are now available covering almost any topic you can think of and you can subscribe to about different series, covering topics like science, films, history, teaching, language and storytelling. There’s something out there for everyone.

Here, Sandy Millin from Independent English shares some of her favourite podcasts designed for English language learners to get you started.