Podcasts: World View

Let’s listen to an article from Spotlight’s World View section now. “Blooming awful”, from page 12 of the magazine, is about some fierce competition in the UK.

Jenny Evans will read "It's a great month to visit Belize" from page 6 of the magazine. Why not try a listening comprehension exercise based on the text?

Let's follow Anne Alexander Sieder to Los Angeles for a mystery lover's tour of the city. As you listen, try to find the answer to this question: In what year did L.A.'s biggest unsolved murder mystery happen?

This week, Eamonn Fitzgerald is here to read an excerpt from the World View section of the magazine. As you listen, try to find the answers to the questions.

Donald Trump, the wealthy American businessman, has been in the news for several months, as he’s fought to buy a piece of the Scottish coastline.

This week, we’ve chosen a short item about an Englishman, James Brett. It’s taken from the World View section of the magazine. Brett is trying to fight the drug trade in Afghanistan with pomegranates.

This week, we begin with a short item about a gold rush that is sweeping across Britain. From Northern Ireland, across Wales to Scotland, old gold mines are back in production. The latest one is at Cononish, north of Glasgow.

For most people, the dream of space travel is only that: a dream. But with the launch of SpaceShipTwo in 2009, it will become reality. Here to tell you more about this project of British business leader Richard Branson is Jenny Evans.

What do you think of as typically Scottish? Did I hear you say bagpipes
— a musical instrument made of a number of pipes and a bag? Dagmar Taylor from Aberdeen reads “Mythical music” taken from the World View section of Spotlight magazine.

In this week's podcast, we focus on a story from the World View section of the magazine. The story we've chosen for you, "Dangerous Dust", is from the Caribbean and disusses the causes of a huge local increase in asthma.