Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Thursday.
Why everyone loves the underdog
March 28, 2024
6:13
Disability in music and theatre
March 21, 2024
5:57
What makes a great library?
March 14, 2024
6:14
Sewing to fight period poverty
March 7, 2024
Plastic waste eaten by enzymes
Feb. 29, 2024
Feed your brain
Feb. 22, 2024
6:11
Food for new mums
Feb. 15, 2024
6:22
Fighting loneliness with soup
Feb. 8, 2024
6:37
What is the future of work?
Feb. 1, 2024
6:31
How the language of menus matters
Jan. 25, 2024
The psychology of greed
Jan. 18, 2024
Addicted to sugar
Jan. 11, 2024
Our love of pets
Jan. 4, 2024
6:07
Sexism: Female farmers fighting back
Dec. 28, 2023
Learning lessons from the Moon
Dec. 21, 2023
Could we live without plastic?
Dec. 14, 2023
Invasive species: Why don't we eat them?
Dec. 7, 2023
What and where is Little Italy?
Nov. 30, 2023
Social media and teenage health
Nov. 23, 2023
6:09
Mystery flying objects
Nov. 16, 2023
Elephant-proof farming
Nov. 14, 2023
Should we farm octopus?
Nov. 2, 2023
Ways to live for 100 years
Oct. 26, 2023
How green is your money?
Oct. 19, 2023
6:12
Mushrooms: Medicine or myth?
Oct. 12, 2023
Saving dead languages
Oct. 5, 2023
Sounds that make you want to scream
Sept. 28, 2023
How fans talk about their passions
Sept. 21, 2023
Making male friends
Sept. 14, 2023
Space-saving solar hacks
Sept. 7, 2023
The stories behind our names
Aug. 31, 2023
Heatwaves - can we adapt?
Aug. 24, 2023
Are you unhappy at work?
Aug. 17, 2023
Do you have eco-anxiety?
Aug. 10, 2023
6:10
Can we stop natural disasters?
Aug. 4, 2023
The right way to say sorry
July 27, 2023
Could you live on wild food?
July 20, 2023
Plants fighting pollution
July 13, 2023
Should we fear chatbots?
July 6, 2023
Is it wrong to eat plants?
June 29, 2023
6:26
Sonic seasoning
June 22, 2023
6:15
The benefits of doing nothing
June 15, 2023
6:19
The art of subtitling
June 8, 2023
Ecotourism: good or bad?
June 1, 2023
6:29
Can climate change cause more disease?
May 25, 2023
6:21
Food shortages
May 18, 2023
Addicted to war
May 11, 2023
Ice and the origins of life on Earth
May 4, 2023
Women in politics
April 27, 2023
6:18
What's the point of museums?
April 20, 2023
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