Links to Listening-Related Sites

You are advised to install a software called RealPlayer to make a full use of the sites below. You can install RealPlayer online for free.

Listening exercises

• English as a Second Language Home Page
• Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
• Exchange
• KVES

News

• CNN.com
• BBC Online
• ABCNEWS.com
• CBSNews.com
• NBC.com
• NPR Online Programs
  • Morning Edition
  • Talk of the Nation
  • All Things Considered
• Voice of America (Latest News from VOA)
• PBS Online
• RealAudio Home (Choose one of the "beat clicks")
• ABC Online (Australian Broadcasting Coporation)
• PC World Online News Radio
• CBC.CA (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Air Force Radio News

Music

• World Wide Music
• MP3.com
• Beatles Lyrics (lyrics)
• The Official Rolling Stones Web Site
• DavidBowie.com

Movies

• Hollywood Online (Select MovieTalk or MultiMedia [titles on the left bar; then QuickTime] )
• MTV (bands a-z; band names on the left bar)
• MCA
• Paramount
• Movie Web

Speeches　

• Vincent Voice Library

Interviews

• LINEBreak (Interviews with poets and novelists.)

Literary Readings

• Fooling with Words with Bill Moyer
• Academy of American Poets Listening Booth
• The New York Times Book Review Audio Specials
• Berkeley Poetry Summer of 65 (Jack Spicer, Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn)
• William Faulkner Speeches
• Harper Audio (Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, et. al.)
• Here (Laurie Anderson; Shockwave necessary)
• Internet Poetry Archive (Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Phil Levine)
• Kerouac Speaks (Jack Kerouac)
• Radio IDT (Micheal Joyce and Jean Baudillard)
• Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Jackson Mac Low)
• An Audible Anthology

Special

• Mr. Bean Sound Bites
• Accounts from Participants in Nanjing Massacre and Notorious Medical and Biological Weapons of Unit 731