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Old Time Radio Shows (Public Domain) (www.archive.org)

For native English speakers. MP3 files of shows from the early days of radio.

Penguin Dossiers (A commercial site, but these are free.) (Pearson Education / Longman)

You can download MP3 files and read the scripts.

Project Gutenberg's Audio Books Read by a Computer Speech Synthesizer

Public domain books and stories. The pronunciation my not be completely correct.

Project Gutenberg's Audio Books Read by Humans

Books by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, ... (Not Modern Writers)

Radio New Zealand International

The 10-minute 'Pacific News & Sports Report' can be downloaded as MP3.

Radio Programs @ archive.org

For advanced English learners and native speakers. OTR

Ray Kroc's Great Success (As a Podcast with Transcription)

MP3 files of talking by Macdonalds' leader. (Was a podcast until July 4, 2006)

ReadBangkokPost.com's General News (Daily)

A news story with MP3 files and vocabulary lists with definitions.

ReadBangkokPost.com's Weekend Practice (Weekly)

You can listen online or download the MP3 file. Read the text, too.

Repeat After Us - Children's Stories

Aesop's Fables, Hans Christian Anderson's Stories, ...

Repeat After Us - Prose Fiction

Downloadable MP3 files: Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, ...

Repeat After Us - Prose Non-Fiction

Declaration of Independence, Kennedy's Inaugural Address 1962, ...

Repeat After Us - Your Online Library and Language Lab (Brooke, Browning, Dickinson, etc.)

Recorded poetry in downloadable MP3 files with the text on the web site.

Sherlock Holmes Audio (MP3 Files) (Tim Aldrich)

A book in progress as a podcast. Previously read books are complete and can be downloaded.

speckled band.zip (Right-click or Option-Click the Link to Download)

Direct link to an audio book for ESL students. Zipped archive.

Spoken English Learned Quickly (Gregg Lundquist)

A downloadable self-study English course. Christian content.

Spotlight Radio - Listen to MP3 Files & Read (Christy Prins)

Similar to VOA's Special English Broadcasts, but Christian Oriented,

Standford on iTunes (No RSS, So Not Podcasts)

Downloadable MP3 files for free: Faculty Lectures, Music, Global Issues, ...

StoryPatch: A Place for English Learners to Read and Listen to Stories (Patricia Thornton-Houser)

Fatty Coon at Home, Fatty Learns Something about Eggs, ...

Tech Talk Radio (Stratford University)

Advanced. Downloadable MP3 files or streamed RealAudio. For native English speakers.

The Linguist Digest – E-magazine (Vancouver, Canada)

A free e-magazine containing content for the English student in both audio mp3 a

Traditions for Today (Chuck Phillips & Mike Krienitz)

MP3 Songs for Learning and Practicing ESL (Lots of reverb.)

VOA Special English - American Stories @ 51voa.com

Text and MP3 files hosted on a Chinese web site.

VOA Special English - People in America @ 51voa.com

Text and MP3 files hosted on a Chinese web site.

VOA Special English - Teaching With Technology in the Information Age

Listen to the MP3 file and read along.

VOA Special English - Words and Their Stories @ 51voa.com

Text and MP3 files hosted on a Chinese web site.

VOA Special English MP3 Files FTP Site (2008) (Voice of America)

You can download all 2008 special features with right-click or option-click

VOA Special English News - Broken into 1-minute segments with transcripts. (nullarbor.co.jp)

The website is in Japanese, but look for the links on the right side of the page

VOA Standard English Broadcasts @ wwenglish.com

Text and MP3 files hosted on a Chinese web site. (The menu page is in Chinese.)

VOA's Dateline (Voice of America)

Many of the articles have downloadable MP3 files. News Stories

VOA's News Now (Voice of America)

Many of the articles have downloadable MP3 files. News Stories

VOA's Our World (Voice of America)

Many of the articles have downloadable MP3 files.

Voice of America Special English (Mirror in China) (www.unsv.com)

You can also get the texts and MP3 files here. (More complete archives than VOA.)

Wired for Books MP3 Page (David Kurz)

Author interviews, plays, poems, stories, lectures, and essays (Ohio University)

WMPG - Greater Porland Community Radio - Archives

Advanced. Downloadable MP3 files. Big Talk, Radio Theater, and other programs.

WNBZ - The Tri Lakes First Choice - Daily News (www.wnbz.com)

Advanced. Downloadable MP3 file and text. For native English speakers.

WordMaster

A VOA program about the English language.

World English Bible Audio (MP3) (Recorded by Michael Paul Johnson)

A public domain (no copyright) Modern English translation of the Holy Bible

www.52en.com/voa_se - VOA Special English Text and MP3s Hosted in Shanghai

Unlike VOAs website, this one is full of ads by Google.

www.abc111.net - College Collage (2 MP3 files - Normal and Slow Speeds) (You can read the texts, too.)

The MP3 files are only in English, but much of the page is in Chinese.

www.abc111.net - Say It Again (Repeat After Us) (You can read the texts, too.)

The MP3 files are only in English, but much of the page is in Chinese.

www.abc111.net - Short Stories for English Study (You can read the texts, too.)

The MP3 files are only in English, but much of the page is in Chinese.

www.abc111.net - Window on the World (You can read the texts, too.)

The MP3 files are only in English, but much of the page is in Chinese.

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar

Ask about English, Grammar Challenge, Up to Date English, Funky Phrasals, ...

www.bookpop.com

Downloadable MP3 stories for (non-ESL) Kids. GiggleSnitcher, Grandpa Sam, ...

www.EigoListening.com - Business Idioms

Just ignore the Japanese on the page and click the play button. (MP3 = English)

www.linguagum.com's 1 Sentence Podcast

Get 1 very short podcast each day with 1 sentence (about 5 seconds long)

www.RadioLovers.com - Old Time Radio Shows (Free Downloadable MP3 Files))

American dramas, mysteries, comedies and so on from the early days of radio.

www.RadioLovers.com - Old-time Radio Shows (MP3 Files)

Shows like Gunsmoke, Father Knows Best, Bob Hope Show, Roy Rogers, ...

z-Inside Mac Weekly (Up to September 30th 2006)

Advanced. Stream or Download MP3 file. Macintosh technical news.

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