Aug 21

What's your favourite snack?

Do you prefer healthy, homemade snacks... or modern, packaged goodies?Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2025/ep-250821SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc. ... Show More

6m 41s

Aug 14

Grown-ups buying kids’ toys

What was your favourite toy as a child? And would you consider playing with it as an adult...? It's not just kids who like to play with toys – many adults like to buy kids' toys for themselves! Phil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary.Find a full transcript, w ... Show More

6m 38s

Aug 7

Are you flourishing?

Many of us are familiar with wellbeing, but have you heard about flourishing?Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2025/ep-250807SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://w ... Show More

6m 28s

Jan 2021

108. Why Do Fewer People Visit Museums Than in the Past? How to Solve It?

Fewer people today visit museums than in the past. Why is this? What can be done to encourage more people to visit museums in the future? There are fewer visitors to museums than there were in the past. an endless stream/a wide choice of entertainment the pre-Internet era wat ... Show More

4m 5s

Dec 2022

Review of 2022

Beth and Neil look back at your favourite news stories and vocabulary of the year.

6m 34s

Dec 2022

المتاحف.. الخزينة الثقافية

تستعرض الحلقة قصص المتاحف السعودية ودورها في مد الجسور بين الماضي والحاضر، وخطط المستقبل لتطوير القطاع المتحفي في المملكة.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26m 39s

Apr 2020

Invention Classic: The Museum

We all love a good museum, but how long have we had them? In this episode of Invention, Robert and Joe discuss just what a museum actually is and when the concept seems to have entered human civilization. (7/1/2019) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnet ... Show More

1h 7m

Jan 2024

¿Hay que descolonizar los museos españoles?

El ministro de Cultura, Ernest Urtasun, tiene como una de sus prioridades la revisión de los museos nacionales, los 17 que dependen del Gobierno, para “superar el marco colonial” en sus colecciones y programaciones temporales. ¿A qué piezas o museos se refiere? ¿De verdad lo nece ... Show More

15m 30s

Jul 2022

Eight months' rain in four days

Neil and Beth discuss the vocabulary in the news headlines about this story.

5m 46s

Aug 2021

Episode 42: Why can't I bring a balloon into the museum? Answering your museum policy questions!

Hello! I took a small break for my new job, so here's an episode celebrating that. Using my experience at three museums, I tackle some of the most common questions I get about museum policies.

1 h

Jan 2023

Quelle place pour les musées dans la géopolitique mondiale?

En 1870, au moment de la Révolution industrielle, il existait un millier de musées. Aujourd’hui, il y en aurait plus de 80.000, dont 35.000 aux USA, environ 30.000 en Europe occidentale et près de 5.000 entre la Chine et le Japon. Les 7/8è des musées qui existent aujourd’hui ont ... Show More

50 m

What's the point of museums?