Podcasts: communication

This month in Spotlight magazine, our business communications expert Ken Taylor presents useful language for giving interviews to the media. Here on the podcast you'll have the chance to listen to a sample interview.

Every month, Spotlight Audio includes exercises around English at work presented by business communications expert Ken Taylor. This month, Ken looks at social conversations. Here is an excerpt from the exercise.

Every month, on Spotlight Audio, business communications expert Ken Taylor looks at an aspect of business English — such as telephoning, correspondence, numbers or business vocabulary. This month’s topic is voicemail messages.

The 18th-century philosopher Joseph Priestley once said: "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." In her American Life column, Ginger Kuenzel considers whether this is still true.