Learning English Stories Podcast
Improve your English with these short dramas and stories.
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Episodes to download
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Part 2: Establishing the facts
Fri 1 Apr 2022
The detectives recall the story Lucy Phelps gave about her missing husband and young son.
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Part 1: Detective work
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Two detectives reflect on the intriguing case of a missing father and his son.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 8: Horrible science
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Gulliver visits the Great Academy of Lagudo.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 7: Island in the sky
Fri 25 Feb 2022
An attack by pirates leaves Gulliver alone on an empty island.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 6: Gunpowder
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Gulliver tries to bargain for his freedom with the King of the giants.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 5: Palace of the giants
Fri 4 Feb 2022
Our hero Gulliver is in the land of the giants, Brobdingnag.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 4: Voyage to Brobdingnag
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Gulliver arrives in a country where he's not the largest, but the smallest ...
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 3: Treachery and treason
Fri 14 Jan 2022
When a fire breaks out at the palace, can Gulliver help?
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 2: War with Blefuscu
Fri 7 Jan 2022
Gulliver goes to war against Lilliput's enemies.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 1: Voyage to Lilliput
Fri 31 Dec 2021
Our hero Gulliver wakes up in a strange land surrounded by hundreds of tiny people.
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A Christmas Carol - part 5: The End of It
Christmas Eve 2021
In his own bed, in his own room, Scrooge felt happy and ready to change his life.
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A Christmas Carol: Part 4 - The Last of the Spirits
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Scrooge was getting used to the company of ghosts by now but he was afraid of this one.
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A Christmas Carol - Part 3: The Second of Three Spirits
Wed 22 Dec 2021
Scrooge wakes before the clock strikes one, ready for the Spirit of Christmas Present.
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A Christmas Carol - Part 2: The First of Three Spirits
Tue 21 Dec 2021
An adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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A Christmas Carol - Part 1: Marley's ghost
Mon 20 Dec 2021
An adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. In this episode, meet Ebenezer Scrooge.
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English at Work: Episode 50: Reality bites
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Learn language to use when making someone redundant.
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English at Work: Episode 49: Award-winning!
Fri 10 Dec 2021
It's award time at the International Plastics Convention! Will Anna's team win the prize?
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English at Work: Episode 48: Face to face
Fri 3 Dec 2021
Will Anna be able to make some useful contacts at the International Plastics Convention?
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English at Work: Episode 47: Talking sense
Fri 26 Nov 2021
How will Anna stop rumours flying round the office?
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English at Work: Episode 46: Acting up
Fri 19 Nov 2021
Anna has to step up to take charge while the boss is missing.
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English at Work: Episode 45: The plastic aubergine
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Anna has to pitch her new idea for a plastic aubergine to Paul the boss.
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English at Work: Episode 44: Computer Crisis
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Something's happened to the computers and everyone's work has disappeared!
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English at Work: Episode 43: Doing your homework
Fri 15 Oct 2021
This episode focuses on the language you need to carry out customer research.
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English At Work - Ep 42 - Language to use when writing a proposal
Fri 8 Oct 2021
Anna and Tom are finally on their dinner date!
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Father and Son: Episode 10
Fri 1 Oct 2021
Arthur Montgomery is suspected of murdering Jamie Phelps. The race is on to find him.
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Father and Son: Episode 8
Fri 17 Sep 2021
The detectives try to work out how and when Jamie's body landed on the beach.
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Father and Son: Episode 7
Fri 10 Sep 2021
The body of the missing man, Jamie Phelps, has been discovered.
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Father and Son: Episode 6
Fri 3 Sep 2021
Does Arthur Montgomery have important information about Jamie's last movements?
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Father and Son: Episode 5
Fri 27 Aug 2021
Meet some people who knew missing man, Jamie Phelps. What will they reveal?
