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BBC Radio · 344 episodes with transcripts

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 https://www.

Spoken has transcripts of 344 6 Minute English episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 15, 2026.

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
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Latest 6 Minute English transcripts

Why has gold got so expensive?

October 15, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Hello, welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil.

Georgina Jackson (0:05)

And I'm Georgie. Did you know that you can now watch a video version of this podcast with subtitles? You can find it at bbclearningenglish.com.

SPEAKER_1 (0:17)

Hi, Georgie. I've got a question for you.

Do you own anything made of gold?

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