6 Minute English

We discuss the art of songwriting – combining lyrics and music to make a hit song.

According to the UN, one third of the food we grow is thrown away. How can we stop this?

We look at the role of 3D printers in medicine, and teach you some related vocabulary.

What can opinion polls really tell us?

Could some ideas to deal with climate change actually damage the environment?

Meet a singer-songwriter who used music to express her feelings of falling in love.

We discuss whether the art of conversation is being lost in the era of social media

Hear about the workers who built the World Cup stadiums

We discuss two different types of weather manipulation.

Is designing a food flavour a dark art? We talk about the people who make flavours.

Some parents are complaining that some Halloween costumes are too scary.

We discuss how extreme weather events are affecting our mental health.

How to adapt dishes from other countries? We talk about it and teach you vocabulary.

We talk about Mozart, Jimi Hendrix and teach you vocabulary.

We discuss inflation and economics and teach related vocabulary.

We discuss language that gets used for dating online and new language that is emerging.

We discuss the advantages of the design of the human body, and teach you vocabulary too.

Hear about two people who dared to follow their dreams and are happy to have done so.

Are emojis turning us into lazy writers?

Hear about women who are using social media to change attitudes to beauty