Here are a few podcasts we feel are well suited to advanced students wanting to improve their listening skills and vocabulary. It’s important to find a podcast that you’re genuinely interested in the topic, and the presenters speak slowly and clearly with easy accents. We’ve added 3 different topics to cater for your different tastes: 1.) politics and current affairs, 2.) romance, and 3.) science. I hope you enjoy them.
Level: Advanced C1 / C2 •
Category: listening; vocabulary
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- For romance: Diane’s new neighbours across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship. One of the most moving and tragic episodes on the love and radio podcast series. Here’s a link for the text so you can read and listen at the same time. Enjoy!
- For politics and business: Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell, hosts of Britain’s biggest podcast (The Rest Is Politics), have joined forces once again for their new interview podcast: Leading. In this episode they interview Bill Gates who speaks about Conspiracy Theories & Good Guys and BAD Guys of AI and categorically states, “I Do Not Track Your Location!”.
- For science: Our Bodies, Our Cells: An audio exploration of life’s building blocks.
Our body is made up of 37 trillion cells that are at once independent yet interconnected
Life is complicated. Beautiful. Bewildering. Astonishing. Busy.
If you enjoy this podcast, I recommend listening to or reading song of the cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
From the prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell tells the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life.