6 Minute English
BBC Radio
Learn and practise useful English with clips from programmes around the BBC. Each week, we talk about an interesting topic and learn helpful words and phrases used in natural spoken English - all in 6 minutes! Practise your listening and hear natural spoken English. Find more at
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Episodes
Mentioned books
Jan 21, 2021 • 6min
What makes a good story?
Hear about storytelling and how it helps us to connect and communicate.
Jan 14, 2021 • 6min
For the love of foreign languages
Is learning languages good for head, heart and soul?
Jan 7, 2021 • 6min
Why can't we resist comfort food?
Neil and Rob talk about comfort food and what actually makes us eat it.
Dec 31, 2020 • 6min
What is fat-shaming?
We discuss where the attitudes behind fat-shaming come from.
Dec 24, 2020 • 6min
Coronavirus vs other pandemics
Hear about coronavirus and how it isn’t that bad compared to historical pandemics
Dec 17, 2020 • 6min
Are trees intelligent?
We talk about trees and how they can communicate and help each other.
Dec 10, 2020 • 6min
Can jellyfish help us solve our problems?
We discuss how these sea creatures could help us solve the problem of plastic pollution.
Dec 3, 2020 • 6min
Why do we choose to text instead of talk?
Communicating by text has become more and more popular. Neil and Georgina talk about it.
Nov 26, 2020 • 6min
Loneliness
Neil and Rob talk about loneliness and how some people prefer their own company.
Nov 19, 2020 • 6min
Is punctuality important?
We discuss people's attitude to being on time and why some people are always late.
