Synopsis
Dramas for English language learners from BBC World Service. Improve your English with retellings of stories classic and new. Each episode is between 6 and 10 minutes long.
Episodes
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 2: War with Blefuscu
07/01/2022 Duration: 07minGulliver goes to war against Lilliput's enemies.
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Gulliver's Travels: Part 1: Voyage to Lilliput
31/12/2021 Duration: 08minOur hero Gulliver wakes up in a strange land surrounded by hundreds of tiny people.
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A Christmas Carol - part 5: The End of It
24/12/2021 Duration: 04minIn his own bed, in his own room, Scrooge felt happy and ready to change his life.
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A Christmas Carol: Part 4 - The Last of the Spirits
23/12/2021 Duration: 04minScrooge was getting used to the company of ghosts by now but he was afraid of this one.
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A Christmas Carol - Part 3: The Second of Three Spirits
22/12/2021 Duration: 05minScrooge wakes before the clock strikes one, ready for the Spirit of Christmas Present.
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A Christmas Carol - Part 2: The First of Three Spirits
21/12/2021 Duration: 05minAn adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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A Christmas Carol - Part 1: Marley's ghost
20/12/2021 Duration: 05minAn adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. In this episode, meet Ebenezer Scrooge.
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English at Work: Episode 50: Reality bites
17/12/2021 Duration: 05minLearn language to use when making someone redundant.
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English at Work: Episode 49: Award-winning!
10/12/2021 Duration: 06minIt's award time at the International Plastics Convention! Will Anna's team win the prize?
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English at Work: Episode 48: Face to face
03/12/2021 Duration: 05minWill Anna be able to make some useful contacts at the International Plastics Convention?
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English at Work: Episode 47: Talking sense
26/11/2021 Duration: 06minHow will Anna stop rumours flying round the office?
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English at Work: Episode 46: Acting up
19/11/2021 Duration: 05minAnna has to step up to take charge while the boss is missing.
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English at Work: Episode 45: The plastic aubergine
29/10/2021 Duration: 05minAnna has to pitch her new idea for a plastic aubergine to Paul the boss.
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English at Work: Episode 44: Computer Crisis
22/10/2021 Duration: 05minSomething's happened to the computers and everyone's work has disappeared!
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English at Work: Episode 43: Doing your homework
15/10/2021 Duration: 07minThis episode focuses on the language you need to carry out customer research.
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English At Work - Ep 42 - Language to use when writing a proposal
08/10/2021 Duration: 05minAnna and Tom are finally on their dinner date!
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Father and Son: Episode 10
01/10/2021 Duration: 06minArthur Montgomery is suspected of murdering Jamie Phelps. The race is on to find him.
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Father and Son: Episode 9
24/09/2021 Duration: 04minA witness comes forward with some revealing information.
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Father and Son: Episode 8
17/09/2021 Duration: 03minThe detectives try to work out how and when Jamie's body landed on the beach.
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Father and Son: Episode 7
10/09/2021 Duration: 03minThe body of the missing man, Jamie Phelps, has been discovered.