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Business English Learners often want to listen to authentic English recordings whose content is related to business topics. The Web offers the advantage of up-to-dateness. The following list is intended to offer a variety of different types of listening in terms of length; style of content, e.g. news and commentary; and accent. All require the user's computer to have RealMedia's RealPlayer plug-in which is a free download available from: http://www.real.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/webber.shtml
A fifteen-minute radio programme summarising the main international business
stories.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/working_lunch
A regular feature of BBC2 television's daytime schedule. Working Lunch features
factual, light-hearted, analysis of business and finance in the UK. Much
of the listening is, in fact, video so benefits from a high-speed Internet
connection. However, the language is rich in idiomatic expressions.
http://www.bloomberg.com/media/radio/listen.html
Part of the web-site owned by the current mayor of New York. Listen to live
reports from London, New York and Tokyo on the performance of their respective
stock markets as well as general business news. The Bloomberg web-site also
has a tv channel for those with a broadband connection. American accents
all round at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/media/tv/index.html
http://news.npr.org/business.html
Three to four-minute reports on business topics from America's only commercial-free
media outlet.
http://calgary.cbc.ca/biznet
A daily business programme from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Each
programme features an interview (around 5 minutes) and a column (around
three minutes).
http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/listen
Listen to rolling news reports on Australia's main radio news station. At
the moment they only provide a live feed.
http://www.rnzi.com/audio/audio.shtml
Tradewinds is a 15 minute radio programme which reviews the week's top business
stories from New Zealand and the south Pacific region.
http://www.onbusiness.ie
Business news from the main Irish broadcaster. There is a choice of two
programmes: OnBusiness Today and Tonight. Both are short (5 to 7 minutes)
and cover the latest business stories.
http://www.public.tv
Free access to high quality, authentic business presentations and other
videos. Click on "Business" in the Video Categories list on the
right.
If you have any suggestions for other similar links or find that any of these have changed or died please contact us: contact@te4be.com
Or please feel free to contribute to the discussion in the blog about on-line listening.