The Times Podcasts

Listen to any of these excellent podcasts

Qué podcast

Listen here

Universal Basic Income

Listen to the podcast here

Scams

Scams: podcast

HARDtalk South African Comedian - Trevor Noah

Listen to the interview

Friendship podcast

Listen to the podcast

Podcasts related to sport

Here's a number of podcasts dealing with a variety of aspects of sport:

• Andre Agassi on "Open"
• Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean? 
• Hanging Out On Top of Cliffs Is My Happy Place
• Why Climbers Push To The Brink Of Death
• Climbing Free with Alex Honnold
• Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete 
• The Longest Long Shot
• Personal health tracking products 
• The Complicated Denial of Watching Football
• Gonads: Dutee (What determines gender? Gonads? Hormones?)

Thanks, Elisa.

Why Lemn Sissay holds Christmas dinner for 500 strangers

- An inspirational story:Why Lemn Sissay holds Christmas dinner for 500 strangers

- Listen to an interview with Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright
- The Christmas dinner
-  His Ted Talk

Thank you, Ana 

Stand up straight!

This is the listening we did the other day about posture.
Many of us do not stand, sit or walk correctly and according to research, people in the UK have the worst posture in Europe. Join Rosie and Kate as they discuss the problems a bad posture can cause and hear from an expert about how we should be walking.

Download the audio
Read the transcript

Spain's Stolen Babies

Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.
Listen to the report from the BBC World Service: Download audio

Find out more about this news here

Podcasts

If you spend a bit of time travelling between home, work and school you may be interested in podcasts.
Podcasts are multimedia files distributed over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer.
In this case they're programmes which you can download and listen to on your mp3 player, ipod, etc.
You can sort them out by average duration to fit your needs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
These are for English learners:
http://www.englishmeeting.com/esl_podcast_page.htm