Podcasts: Britain

Colin Beaven asks, "Why should we tell our supermarket where we live?"

In certain parts of London, the streets are cold and lonely at night. Some even say that these areas are haunted by the ghosts of people who died long ago.

Colin Beaven is Spotlight's British columnist. We can always count on him to give insight into life in the UK and to make us laugh at the same time. Listen to an excerpt of his column, titled "When opera comes to the country".

In the Replay section of Spotlight Audio this month, one of our most interesting topics is the rioting and looting that recently took place in London. Let’s listen together to part of track 11 from Spotlight Audio.

Correspondent Julian Earwaker went to several famous hedge mazes in Britain. Listen now to a short excerpt from his interview with Adrian Fisher, the world’s leading designer of mazes.

We know from readers' letters that language and culture come together in a special way in Colin Beaven's Britain Today column. Let's listen now to an excerpt from his latest column, "How very Middleton of you".

Each month in our Debate section we look at a controversial issue and talk to people on the street about it. This month, Julian Earwaker from Britain turned in a fascinating piece on prisoners and the vote.

Jenny Evans from Britain reads the text of "Valentine of the month... Catherine Middleton". Listen for the answer to this question: How long has it been since a future British king married a commoner?

The new coalition government in Britain wants to make big cuts to its budget. Let’s listen to track 11 from the January edition of Spotlight Audio to find out more.

This week, I’d like to turn to an old favourite: our Britain Today column on page 13 of the magazine. Nick Lloyd will read us an excerpt from this month’s column, which is called “Make space for tigers”.