English News Weekly

This is a very special edition of Hiroshima University’s English News Weekly as it celebrates our 200th episode since we first started in April 2011. Usually English News Weekly chooses an interesting, or important news story from the past seven days, but this week we are going to go a little further back in time... To celebrate our double-centenary episode English News Weekly is going to look at some big news stories from this week in history. We will start with June 15th and perhaps the most impactful piece of paper in history... 2011年4月に配信を開始しました広島大学のポッドキャスト"English News Weekly"は、今回の配信で200回目を迎えました。これを記念して、今回は特別版をお届けします。 通常の配信では、その1週間の出来事から興味深いニュースや重要なニュースを選んでいますが、今週は少し過去にさかのぼってみましょう。 第200回記念の"English News Weekly"は、過去の歴史の中で、今週1週間に起こったニュースを取り上げます。それでは、まず6月15日から... Image credit: OpenClipartVectors via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 199 reports on a new story from Scandinavia -- in which there is a suggestion that companies should be taxed for using English words on television, the Internet or in newspapers and magazines. Image credit: Hazhk via Wikipedia CC BY 2.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 198 reports on whether the world's most popular sport is heading for a civil war. Image credit: Illegitimate Barrister via Wikipedia CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 197 reports on three different areas, chosen by some students at Hiroshima University. Image credit: mcpdigital via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 196 reports on a new problem in Japan -- the rise of abandoned towns and villages and hamlets. Image credit: ghost town in Amsterdam via Wikipedia CC BY 2.0. Download MP3

Returning to Denmark for the first time since our Episode 9, English News Weekly 195 reports on a new radical idea from Denmark that will allow shops to only accept digital money payments from Danish people's smartphones. Image credit: HLundgaard via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 194 reports on the terrible earthquake that hit the mountain nation of Nepal this week. As well as killing thousands of people, the massive earthquake caused panic on Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. Image credit: Lucag via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.5. Download MP3

English News Weekly 193 introduces the world's most dangerous job, and occupaton you might be surprised to learn is quite so deadly. Image credit: Work by by Ingeborg Bernhard, uploaded by Schnobby via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 192 is about a big problem that has emerged in the chess world -- where one of the best players in the world has been found cheating in a toilet. Image credit: Roark via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 191 is about an interesting new story from the United States. Did one amateur sailor really spend more than two months adrift at sea by himself, with no fresh water or food? Image credit: geralt via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 190 is a special edition, recorded live from Mont St. Michel and Northern France! English News Weekly has visited France twice before -- Episode 43 and Episode 112. This episode comes from four different and interesting locations in Brittany and Normandy. Hope you will enjoy our first 2015 Travel Edition... Image credit: Diliff via Wikipedia CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 189 is a special edition from Glasgow! English News Weekly has visited Scotland before: Edinburgh in 2013, Episode 113. This episode comes from four different and interesting locations from Scotland's biggest city. Hope you will enjoy our first 2015 Travel Edition... Image credit: George Gastin via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 188 is a special edition from London! English News Weekly first visited London in the summer of 2012, Episode 65. This episode comes from four different and interesting locations from the English capital. Hope you will enjoy our first 2015 Travel Edition... Image credit: JaT via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 187 is all about the fascinating discovery of one of the world's most famous lost cities in the jungles of Central America. Image credit: Virgil Finlay via Wikipedia CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 186 is all about the Academy Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles this week. Who took away the biggest awards? Who was disappointed? To find out more, listen to this week's English News Weekly podcast. Image credit: Red Carpet Report via Wikipedia CC0 BY-SA 2.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 185 is about the 10th anniversary of the most popular video sharing website in the world: YouTube. Image credit: geralt via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3

English News Weekly 184 is about the staggering rise and success of Sam Smith, a 22-year-old singer-songwriter from London, England. We will also be looking at the 2015 Grammy Award Ceremonies. Image credit: Adapted from Estoymuybueno via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 183 is all about Japan's government trying to force Japanese companies to make their workers take all the paid holidays instead of going to work on them. Image credit: Chris_73 via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 182 looks at the 70th anniversary ceremonies held to remember the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. Image credit: Philmo1 via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0. Download MP3

English News Weekly 181 looks at a story from England, where an innovative new invention might help reduce the number of injuries that cyclists have on the roads each year. Image credit: stux via Pixabay CC0 Public Domain. Download MP3