Useful podcasts

If you want/need to improving your listening skills, don't miss these podcasts:

• Forum: 40 minutes; in each episode four people discuss a specific topic from a very wide range of areas. Examples include ‘Why are plants and flower shapes so varied?’ and ‘The best way to build new markets’
• Forum 60-second idea to change the world: 5-7 minutes; in every Forum episode one of the speakers spends sixty seconds describing an idea which could change the world; the other speakers then discuss whether it could work or not.
• Excess Baggage: 29 minutes; each episode normally meets three different people who have travelled to different parts of the world. The programme is no longer updated, but there are 85 old episodes you can still listen to.
• The Why Factor: 18 minutes; why do we do the things we do?