Kids, Before the Age of TV There Was a Funny Thing Called a Radio Show Laughs from yesteryear with performances by Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Fred Allen and Bob Hope. Transcript of radio broadcast: 14 January 2008 Download MP3 More English lea...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Governments are always judged by how they use power. But they differ by how they divide power. Some have strong presidents or prime ministers. Others have military control. But political scientist...
VOICE ONE: I'm Ray Freeman. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with the Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person important in the history of the United States. Julia Ward Howe Today, we tell about Julia Ward How...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The American presidential campaign took a surprising turn this week. Hillary Clinton Senator Hillary Clinton won the Democratic vote in the first primary state, New Hampshire, on Tuesday. That was after sh...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some music from Alice Smith /P Answer a question about two American actors /P And tell about an art museum in Miami, Florida. Marg...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. McDonald's, the fast-food company, is heating up competition with the Starbucks Coffee Company. McDonald's plans to put coffee bars in its fourteen thousand restaurants in the United States. Fewer th...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The United States became a nation in seventeen seventy-six. Less than a century later, in the eighteen sixties, it was nearly torn apart. A civil war took place, the only one...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A recent decision by Harvard University to expand financial aid is putting pressure on other schools to do the same. Graduation ceremonies at Harvard in June The full price for one year at Harvard in...
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we bring you the second of three programs about beautiful and unusual places in our world. Last week, we told about structures built...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C.O.P.D., affects more than two hundred million people around the world. The World Health Organization says at least five million people died from it in two tho...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Emergency hospital during 1918 influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, our subject is influenza, commonly called the flu. W...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A round barn in Illinois American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular, longer than they are wide. But as many as one thousand barns in the Midwest a...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Annie Leibovitz with portrait of Susan Sontag in ''A Photgrapher's Life, 1990-2005'' at the Corcoran Gallery of Art And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week we tell ab...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Sometimes it takes an engineer to help a village. In poor communities, that help may come from volunteers with a group called Engineers Without Borders. A civil engineering professor in the United...
VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Shel Silverstein. He was a poet, writer, composer, singer, musician and artist. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Shel Silve...
