Extras

Extras

Web-based listening exercises
Audio, video and text resources
Metasites and lists of links, News and news podcasts,
TV, video, comedy, Movies, Science, Culture and history,
Selected radio stations, Interviews and talk radio,
Books and stories, Radio drama, Cooking videos,
Text resources
Internet radio and TV portal sites
Speeches and scripts
Music
Newspapers and magazines
Language exchanges, penpals and e-mail discussion lists
Words of the Day
Pronunciation and grammar
Ghost stories
Word play
Party games
Free online comics

Pretty good jokes
The Dozens: Yo Momma jokes
Knock-knock jokes
Tongue twisters and palindromes
Spoonerisms
Mondegreens: Misheard lyrics
Limericks
Poetry
More literature
Christmas carols
Favorite freeware and online services
Basic utitlities and services, Internet ad-zappers, Graphics,
Audio/video, Music, rhythm, timers, converters, math,
Editors and word processors,
Dictionary, thesaurus, rhymes, language identifiers,
Messaging, Internet phone, voice e-mail,
Text-to-speech (TTS) and vocoder, Phonetics: IPA,
Phonetics: Speech analysis tools, Games,
Software, shareware and freeware sources

Here are some practical language learning ideas and links to start you off.
Here are a few hints on how to go about doing the listening exercises – especially useful if it's your first time.

Minnesota Public Radio: Inspiring boys to read

Minnesota Public Radio: Life after prison

Minnesota Public Radio: Garbage glaciers

Minnesota Public Radio: Black manes rule among lions in the Serengeti

Minnesota Public Radio: Weight loss surgery: the last resort?

Minnesota Public Radio: Neighborhood friction is a sign of the times

Minnesota Public Radio: Shakespeare Songs

Wisconsin Public Radio: Mom & Dad Growing Old: "Stuff"

Chicago Public Radio: Embroidery Felon

Chicago Public Radio: This American Life: Tell It to the Void (I) (II)

KPCC: Interview with voice-over cleanup actor Mark Sussman

Voice of America Webcast: Foreign language teaching in the U.S. and Yao Ming

CBS video report: The Early Show: Reporter's Cancer Video Diary (video)

CBS News Video: Bagpipe Student Drowns Out Critics

"ABC News Shuffle" podcast: Daily realities of Iraq

ABC News Good Morning America podcast: Maligned customers suing Walgreens

ABC News: Santa Barbara's Mobile Homeless

NBC Nightly News: Bush Fake News Blitz (video)

CNN International: Captain Underpants Ban

CNN: Larry King Live: Positive Thinking, Part I II

Fox News: Excerpt from Senator John McCain's Concession Speech

Fox News podcast: A Few Moments with Jewel

CBC: Rats

CBC: Autism – The Long Wait

CBC: Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald: Seeing with Sound

Technologies for the Blind (videos)

ABC NSW: Cockroaches – friend or foe?

ABC: How To Find a Husband after Thirty-five

NYT: Life After Rehab

NYT: From Ladles of Molten Metal

Profiles with Tara: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (I) (II)

Profiles with Tara: Elder rage: (I) (II)

Profiles with Tara: Abusive men: (I) (II)

The Infinite Mind: Cheating

National Geographic Presents: Europe's Fascination with Native Americans

NationalGeographic.com: City of the Dead: Holt Cemetery, New Orleans

Mayo Clinic (I): Work on wheels with Thomas Holtackers (video)

Mayo Clinic (II): Capsule Endoscopy and All About an Allergy Test (video)

A Moment of Science II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X

Scientific American's 60-Second Science podcasts

New Scientist.com podcast: Anonymous sperm donors exposed

The Voices of Innovation: Artificial hand and Zipper

Seasonal Strategies with Robert Brodman, PhD

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: First Person - Ayanna Howard (video)

Oprah Winfrey's After the Show: Incredible Stories of Survival, Part Two (video)

Oprah Winfrey: Randy Pausch reprises his "Last Lecture"

VideoJug: Life Explained on Film: How To Write A CV

VideoJug: How to Remember People's Names

Steve Chandler: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
(tape available in AV library)

Cosmopolitan's Ask Him Anything Podcasts

The Larry Elder Show: Interview with Vili Fualaau

PBS Kids: It's My Life (videos)

ChannelOne.com: Living with alcoholism (video)

ChannelOne.com: French riots (video)

The Joy of Baking: Making Scones (video)

Taunton Press: Make a 10-inch Berry Tart (video)

The New York Times: Dips and spreads: Baba Ghanouj (video)

The New York Times: Seafood Salad (video)

The New York Times: Not Your Grandmother's Pancake: Pa jun (video)

Epicurious: Rolled omelet (video)

Cooking.com cooking video: How to make basic stuffing (video)

Startcooking.com: Mixed Bean and Vegetable Soup

Gunsmoke: Indian Baby (I) (II)

Gunsmoke: Kitty (I) (II)

Gunsmoke: The Liar from Blackhawk (I) (II)

Gunsmoke: Marryin' Bertha (I) (II)

Gunsmoke: Home Surgery (I) (II)

Dragnet: The Big Escape (I) (II)

The Nine Billion Names of God I II
radio drama based on the 1967 science fiction story by Arthur C. Clarke
(tape available in AV library)

I Love Lucy: Breaking the Lease

Monologue by Ellen DeGeneres (videos)

Satirical song on YouTube: "Jerry Falwell's God" by Roy Zimmerman (I) (II)

Country-pop song: "Black Cadillac" by Rosanne Cash

Country-Western-Rap song: I Wanna Talk About Me

Popular song: "Desperado" by the Eagles

Popular Song: "Laurie" by Dickey Lee

Popular song: "The Angel" by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Popular Song: "Insensitive" by Jann Arden

Popular song: "Between" by Vienna Teng

Popular song: "Putting Things Away" by Amanda McBroom

Popular song: "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens

Popular song: "W*O*L*D" by Harry Chapin

Popular song: "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie

Popular song: It's a Mad World

AL-TV: Weird Al vs. Eminem

Movie: Cloze exercise: When Harry Met Sally I II

Movie: Corrected transcriptions: Kramer vs. Kramer

Movie: Corrected transcriptions: You've Got Mail (.doc)

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Audio, video and text resources

Metasites and lists of links

StumbleUpon!
Discover New Sites
Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar
to find great websites, videos, photos and more based
on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like
and makes better recommendations.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Incredible collections of links to all sorts of learning resources in the arts, business, education, the humanities, mathematics, science and technology, and the social sciences
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

TVEyes
TVEyes Video Search lets you search the Internet for TV clips
http://tveyes.com/

Singingfish offers audio/video search services
that help people easily find mp3s, movie trailers, sports highlights,
newscasts, and other streaming files
http://www.singingfish.com/

Yahoo! Video Search
http://video.search.yahoo.com/

Audio, Video & Multimedia Resources on the Web: Finding Aids
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/audioandmore.htm

World English: English Language Activities, Exercises and Tests
http://www.world-english.org/

E. L. Easton: Materials for Teaching and Learning
http://eleaston.com/

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/

ESL: Listening A sub-page of The Internet TESL Journal's TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/

Resources for English as a Second Language
http://www.usingenglish.com/

Listening - Sites for Comprehension: Guide picks
http://esl.about.com/cs/listeningresource/

Internet English Resources
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_internet_res.html

Using English for Academic Purposes
School of Combined Studies, University of Hertfordshire
Listening comprehension & note-taking: Exercises
http://www.uefap.co.uk/listen/listfram.htm

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News and News podcasts

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
BBC podcasts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/#programmes
BBC World Today Select podcast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/worldtoday/news/story/2006/03/060320_podcast.shtml

EuroNews with videos
http://www.euronews.net/

NPR
http://www.npr.org/
NPR podcasts
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

MPR
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/
MPR podcasts
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/about/site/podcasts/

New York Times Podcasts
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html
Book review podcast archive
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-podcast-archive.html?8bu&emc=bu
Video on New York Times: Movie Minutes, David Pogue,
Business, Science, Dining & Wine, Arts, more
http://video.on.nytimes.com/

Los Angeles Times Podcasts
http://www.latimes.com/broadband/la-podcasting,0,3459559.htmlstory

Washington Post Podcasts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/podcastfront.htm

Time magazine Podcasts
http://www.time.com/time/podcasts/

Newsweek Podcasts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7078547/site/newsweek/

The Economist Podcast
http://www.economist.com/index.html

ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/
ABC podcasts
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Podcasting/

CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

NBC
http://www.nbc.com/
http://www.nbc.com/News_&_Sports/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
CNN podcasts
http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/

Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/

Cosmopolitan Ask-me-anything podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CosmopolitansAskHimAnything

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TV, video, comedy
Oprah. com: The official Web site
http://www.oprah.com/
After the Show
http://www.oprah.com/tows/after/tows_after_all.jhtml

Oxygen Homepage TV clips
http://www.oxygen.com/

VideoJug: Life Explained on Film
http://www.videojug.com/

The Larry Elder Show Archives
http://larryelder.warnerbros.com/recapArchive.html

G4TV.com (with video highlights)
http://www.g4tv.com/shows/index.html

TVLand: Video gallery Celebrity interviews
http://www.tvland.com/caughtoncam/videos.jhtml
TV Shows
http://www.tvland.com/shows/

Comedy Central Video clips
http://www.comedycentral.com/
Jon Stewart's Daily Show Archives
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/stephen_colbert/index.jhtml

CBS: The Late Show with David Letterman Audio clips
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/dave_tv/ls_dtv_big_show_highlights.shtml

the ellen degeneres show Daily monologue, video clips
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/galleries/video/index.html?=mono/daily
Index:
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/galleries/video.html

The Jack Paar Collection: Sample videos
http://www.shoutfactory.com/selection/107/popqt/The_Jack_Paar_Collection.html

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
http://www.pbs.org/
PBS Online NewsHour Videos
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/index.html
PBS: Tavis Smiley: Archives: Interviews
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/
PBS Kids: It's My Life Videos (Embarrassing Moments, Gossip & Rumors, Time Management...)
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/video/index.html

Channel One: K-12 programming: Lots of links
http://www.channelone.com/video/

Online Court TV
http://www.courttv.com/video/

C-Span streaming video: Political reporting, Book TV, many links to other C-span services
http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

Bloomberg Television: Finance
http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/index.html

YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/

P.O.V. Online Short Film Festival: Archive
http://www.pbs.org/pov/filmarchive.php

Google video search (beta)
http://video.google.com/

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Movies
English-trailers.com
ESL exercises for movie trailers
http://www.english-trailers.com/

Warner Brothers Movie trailers
http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/all/link/external.jsp?url=http://trailers.warnerbros.com/web/index.jsp&frompage=sitemap Television
http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/main/television/television.jsp?frompage=sitemap

Apple: Fox Searchlight QuickTime movie trailers
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/

Apple movie trailers
http://www.apple.com/trailers/

Hollywood.com Movie trailers, reviews, more
http://www.hollywood.com/

Delta Campus Moviefest Student-made movies
http://www.campusmoviefest.com/

Independent Lens: The first annual Online Shorts Festival
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/insideindies/shortsfest/index.html

How "Star Wars" Was Made
http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/bts/me1/archive.html

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Science and academics
Nationalgeographic.com: Pulse of the Planet
Feature stories on culture and nature from around the world
in audio and video (RealOne/WinMedia)
http://pulseplanet.nationalgeographic.com/

National Geographic Presents
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/news.html
Program Previews
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/programs/index.html
Inside 9/11: Video interview archive
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside911/

PBS: Nature: Video archives
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/database.html
PBS: Wired Science
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/

NOVA: Science Now
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/archive/q050125.html
Podcasts: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/rss/

Free Science and Video Lectures Online!
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/

The Science Café
The University of California at San Francisco
http://www.ucsf.edu/sciencecafe/index.html

Cornell University: CyberTower: Study Rooms
http://cybertower.cornell.edu/index.html

MIT podcast: Zigzag
http://web.mit.edu/zigzag/

Open Culture: University Podcast Collection
http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2006/10/free_university_1.html

free university lectures
http://lecturefox.com/

New Scientist Podcast
http://www.newscientist.com/podcast.ns

Nature Podcast
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html

Seed MagazinePodcast
http://seedmagazine.com/podcasts/

Science Friday Podcast
http://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/

Naked Scientists: BBC/Cambridge University Online Science Radio Archive
Now with podcasts
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/shows/Archive.htm

BBC: Click Online
The BBC's flagship technology lifestyle show
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/default.stm

The Infinite Mind: A deeper look at cheating, domestic
violence, mental health, much more
http://www.theinfinitemind.com/mindprgm.htm

A Moment of Science: Audio
http://amos.indiana.edu/library/audio.html

Everyday Science Radio Series: See audio archives
http://www.everydayscience.org/index2.html

The Engines of Our Ingenuity: Audio with text; written and hosted by John Lienhard
http://www.uh.edu/engines/engines.htm

NPR: Sounds Like Science: Archives
http://www.npr.org/programs/science/archives/

NPR: Talk of the Nation: Science Friday with Ira Flatow
http://www.npr.org/programs/scifri/

Science Interchange/National Audobon Society: Birds, evolution and farming (90 seconds each)
http://www.earthnewsradio.org/naspage.htm

Berkeley Grogs: Audio Archives
http://www.archive.org/audio/audiolisting-browse.php?cat=981

Science@NASA Podcasts
http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.htm

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Mars Exploration Rover Mission Videos
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/video/

NASA’s Destination Tomorrow: 30-minute videos on NASA research programs; on the Apple site
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000848/
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001454/

Arctic Science Journeys (Alaska)
http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/NewsMedia/MoreASJ.html

Sports: Oakley Video Vault: See the world through the eyes of Oakley athletes
http://oakley.com/about/video_vault/?id=apple

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Culture and history

TEDTALKS
Technology Entertainment Design
Hosting audio and video talks by some of the world's
most fascinating people: Trusted voices and
convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/

Favorite Poem Project Video collection
Hear and see ordinary people read their favorite poems and tell their life stories
http://www.favoritepoem.org/index.html

Lectures on: What to listen for in music with Dr. Michael Broyles
http://town.hall.org/radio/Kennedy/Broyles/

Merriam-Webster's Word for the Wise
http://www.m-w.com/wftw/wftw.htm

BBC Four: Documentaries
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/

Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
In these more than 300 lively and unedited interviews, distinguished men and women
from all over the world talk about their lives and their work.Guests include
diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists
and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/alpha.htm

WHST- Spoken History (registration required)
http://www.live365.com/stations/geomacdow

Talking History: Aural History Productions
http://www.talkinghistory.org/index.html

Community Language Collection: Oral History recordings
http://www.uncc.edu/english/clc/index1.html

The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
American Memory Collections sound recordings
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/audio.html

"The Negro and the American Promise" Video interviews
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/sfeature/sf_video.html

Tejano Voices Interviewees
http://libraries.uta.edu/tejanovoices/gallery.asp

Lakota Winter Counts
http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Video excerpts
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/index.htm

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
http://www.fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/movies.htm

The Open Video Project: This site offers nearly 2000 free videos online
"The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities."
http://www.open-video.org/

Creative Commons: Common content
Images, Movies, Audio, Text, Web sites
http://commoncontent.org/

AudioTreasure: Download the Bible in mp3 for free
Links to Bible audio resources in many languages
http://www.audiotreasure.com/

Buddha Net Audio Meditation instruction
http://www.buddhanet.net/audio-meditation.htm

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Selected radio stations for English listening practice
National Public Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition
http://www.npr.org/
National Public Radio: StoryCorps: Recording America
Since 2003, thousands have taken part in the StoryCorps oral history project, describing their lives and history.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4516989

The BBC World Service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
BBC: Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/index.shtml

Voice of America Webcasts
http://voa-7.chntva1-dc1.genuity.net/Webcasts/index.cfm

VOA's Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/front/

VOA's New American Voices: Immigrants tell VOA their stories
http://www.voanews.com/NewAmericanVoices/index.cfm

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR)
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/
MPR: Real Stories
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/realstories/
MPR: StoryCorps: In downtown Minneapolis, people are
stepping into a 26-foot trailer to tell each other about their lives.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2005/06/storycorps/
MPR: Human interest stories
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/human_interest/

American Public Media: Marketplace Money: A Day in the Work Life: Short interviews
http://marketplacemoney.publicradio.org/collections/special/2004/day_in_the_work_life/

American Public Media: American RadioWorks
Documentaries: Home
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/index.html
Podcasts
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/podcast.html

WPKN News and Public Affairs Programming
http://www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/

FAIR: CounterSpin The News Behind the Headlines
http://www.fair.org/counterspin/index.htmll

World Radio Network (WRN): OnDemand Audio
http://www.wrn.org/ondemand/

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.cbc.ca/

Radio Canada International
http://www.rcinet.ca/

Radio One Ireland
http://www.rte.ie/

Scotland FM
http://www.radioscotland.com/

Wales Radio International
http://wri.cymru.net/

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.abc.net.au/default.htm

Radio New Zealand International
http://www.rnzi.com/

Sunset Radio South Africa
http://216.247.79.50/nations/za/za01a.html

Latin lives! Hear it on the radio from Finland:
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/summary.html

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Radio and other audio interviews, features, talk radio
BBC full index
http://www.bbc.co.uk/a-z/

BBC Four: Audio interviews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

BBC Four: Women's Hour Great interviews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/
Listen Again Link to archives of previous week at bottom of each page
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/listenagain/

BBC: The Sound of Life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/soundoflife.shtml

BBC Video Nation Archive: Ordinary Brits talk on all kinds of topics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/archive/
Video Suffolk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/videonation/archive2.shtml
The Voices recordings
Listen in to the diverse voices of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man – from Shetland to Penzance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml
Collect Britain: English accents and dialects
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/

Radio RTÉ, Ireland Archives
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/archive/

Talk to Tara: Audio interviews with authors of good books
http://talktotara.com/

The Washington Post: Audio and video archive
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/newsvideo.htm

The New York Times: Audio, video, slide shows
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

PublicRadioFan.com: Public radio listings from around the world
http://www.publicradiofan.com/

Public Radio International: Listener's Center
http://www.pri.org/PublicSite/listeners/index.html

Public radio: Music and nature: Interviews; other links
http://musicandnature.publicradio.org/interviews/

Radio Fresh Air: Interviews
http://freshair.npr.org/guest_info_fa.jhtml?name=index

WBUR in Boston: Good interviews
http://www.wbur.org/

Wisconsin Public Radio
http://www.wpr.org/

Chicago Public Radio
http://www.wbez.org/
Chicago Public Radio: This American Life
http://www.thislife.org/
Chicago Public Radio: Third Coast International Audio Festival
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/pages/archive.html

WFPL 89.3 Louisville, Kentucky
State of Affairs: Audio archive
http://216.24.56.185:8080/WFPL%27s%20State%20of%20Affairs/

Focal Point: An independently produced talk radio program on WEBR Fairfax, Virginia; great interviews
http://www.fpradio.com/index.html

WHYY 91FM: Been There/Done That
Interviews with Marty Goldensohn (Philadelphia and Wilmington)
http://www.whyy.org/91FM/btdt/index.html

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Richardson's Roundup with Bill Richardson
http://www.cbc.ca/roundup/interviews/

ABC Broadband (Australia)
http://www.abc.net.au/broadband/

The WGN Radio Online Audio Archives, Chicago Talk show archives
http://wgnradio.com/archives/index.htm

i.e. America Radio: Liberal Talk Radio (registration required)
http://www.ieamericaradio.com/
http://www.live365.com/stations/ieamerica

Democracy Now! Audio archives
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype:audio%20AND%20collection:democracy_now&sort=%2Fmetadata%2Fdate
Naropa Audio Archives
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype:audio%20AND%20collection:naropa&sort=%2Fmetadata%2Ftitle

Other Minds: Composers, music, musicians Audio archives
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype:audio%20AND%20collection:other_minds&sort=-%2Fmetadata%2Fpublicdate

Conference Proceedings Audio archives
http://www.archive.org/audio/audiolisting-browse.php?collection=conference_proceedings&cat=404

Voice of America: Wordmaster
Text and audio reports on language-related topics
http://www.manythings.org/voa/wm/index.html

NHK (Japan) Online
http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/index_j.html

A Musician's Life
Learn about musicians' lives first-hand
http://www.xponentialmusic.org/interviews_performances/musicianslife.php

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Books and stories

Audio Book Podcast Collection
http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html

Oneword Radio
Serializations of bestselling books, from Jane Austen
to Nick Hornby, read by the greatest actors
http://www.oneword.co.uk/

WRBH Reading Radio, New Orleans: Originally intended for the visually impaired, but great for everybody
http://www.i-55.com/wrbhlive/wrbh.asx

New York Times: Author Interviews and Readings
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-audio-archive.html

Book Radio: Interviews and readings
http://www.bookradio.com/

BBC afternoon story
http://cgi.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoon_reading.shtml

Audio Books for Free
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp

simply audiobooks
Some free downloads
http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/

Free Classic Audio Books
Digital Narration for the 21st Century