Lessons cover listening with a purpose, predicting or preparing to listen, vocabulary, important details, main ideas, inferences, sequence of events, points of view, and specific information using the play as a catalyst
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials(BBC RADIO DRAMA VERSION)The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass Compared with the audiobook version, the BBC radio dramas of the trilogy are more difficult to follow. The key character Lyra speaks extremely fast, not to mention some other characters' accents. When I heard the BBC radio drama of "War and Peace", I thought it is rather difficult, and now I know I was wrong. Any English learner who wants to challenge his or her listening could try this.
Douglas Adams travelled to the remote island of Komodo in search of dragons, equipped only with a zoologist, a BBC producer and a dead goat. From May 5th to May 9th 1997 he read his account of what happened on BBC Radio 4.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - BBC RadioRosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Adapted for radio by Tom Stoppard.
As part of BBC Radio's celebration of the playwright's 70th birthday, Andrew Lincoln and Danny Webb star in Stoppard's new adaptation of his celebrated play. First staged at the Edinburgh Festival when the playwright was an unknown 29 year old, the play is famously set simply 'within and around the action of Hamlet' and has since been widely admired for its verbal wit and dramatic ingenuity, becoming a contemporary classic of British theatre.