listening+links

__**Places to listen on the web**__

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Some of these links may be out of date. There may be other, better places to listen. But this is a place to start.

Why not make your own list of links on your own wiki? Be sure to let me know if there are dead links here I should remove.

//Practice listening and note-taking on these special sites for advanced learners of English. Audio, video and transcripts.//

[|BBC Radio] World Service: Learning English [|Blue Plaque] BBC World Service series on famous inhabitants of London. [|Literacy Net] US TV extracts from CBS and CNN, with online exercises.

//More listening on special themes. MP3 and transcripts.//

[|Voice of the Sea] [|US colonial history]

[|John Tusa] BBC interviews with artists, writers, directors; transcripts.

[|Reith Lectures] Annual UK lecture series featuring leading writers, philosophers, scientists; transcripts.

[|Writers' Almanac]

US public radio insitution Garrison Keillor talks about writers and artists and reads poety; transcripts.

[|Harper Audio] Readings from the work of famous authors, sometimes by those authors (no transcripts)

London's [|Tate Gallery] site with many audio descriptions (+ transcripts) of works of art.

//Read about the Anglosphere.//

[|Wikipedia]: free online encyclopedia BBC News [|country profiles]: statistics and contemporary issues by country

//Listen to radio from English-speaking countries//

[|Australian national radio][|current affairs] (transcripts, mp3)
 * Australia**


 * Canada**[|Canadian national radio]

[|Irish national radio]
 * Ireland**

[|New Zealand national radio] [|BBC], including [|BBC News]
 * New Zealand**
 * UK**

[|National Public Radio] [|KTEC Life and Times] (transcripts, mp3) [|Nashville Public Radio] (transcripts, mp3)
 * US**