Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid look at the story of Isadore Charters. He was taken from his home as a young child. He lost his culture but found healing. Photo credit: "Isadore Charters" (CC BY 2.0) by SFU - Communications & MarketingJoin this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/listen/art/isadore-charters-the-healing-pole/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

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Isadore Charters: The Healing Pole

Robin Basselin and Ryan Geertsma look at one transportation of the future. Can high-speed trains make transportation easier, safer and faster?Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/travel/high-speed-trains/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

High-Speed Trains

What kinds of shoes do people wear around the world? Colin Lowther and Liz Waid look at unusual and special shoes from around the world. How does culture influence clothing?Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/shopping/shoes-of-the-world/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Shoes of the World

Colin Lowther and Liz Waid look at the quick decisions we make, without thinking. These decisions affect our lives more than we know. Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/your-life/how-your-quick-decisions-can-change-your-life/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

How Your Quick Decisions Can Save Your Life

Where do your flowers come from? Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland tell about the business of growing and selling flowers.Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/work-and-business/the-big-business-of-flowers/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

The Big Business of Flowers

This is the fifth in a series of 10 programs on fighting hate in your community. Liz Waid and Colin Lowther look at the fifth way to fight hatred - learning about hate groups.Join our YouTube channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/society/10-ways-to-fight-hate-series/10-ways-to-fight-hate-educate-yourself/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

10 Ways to Fight Hate: Educate Yourself

Adam Navis and Liz Waid give a short history of how people around the world get vaccines. We will have to use many of these methods to deliver vaccines that everyone needs – the COVID-19 vaccines. How do you get vaccines?Join our YouTube channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/health-medicine/sending-covid-19-vaccines-around-the-world/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Sending COVID-19 Vaccines Around the World

In Canada, there is a long, sad history of abuse towards native people. Bruce Gulland and Megan Nollet look at this terrible history, and an attempt to bring healing. Can a country ever reconcile a difficult situation?Join our YouTube channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/history/truth-and-reconciliation-for-canada/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Truth and Reconciliation for Canada

Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinLiz Waid and Ryan Geertsma look at writer Chinua Achebe. He wrote to show Africa as it really is.https://spotlightenglish.com/biography/nigerian-writer-chinua-achebe/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Nigerian Writer Chinua Achebe

Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinHow do you remember the tragic deaths in a war? Colin Lowther and Katy Blake tell the story of a musician who brought beauty to dark times by playing his instrument.https://spotlightenglish.com/music/music-in-war/Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDownload our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Music in War

Join our YouTube channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinWould you eat decaying food? What about poisonous food? Liz Waid and Adam Navis look at these and other taboo foods - foods that most people will not eat. Are there foods in your culture that other cultures find taboo?https://spotlightenglish.com/food-drink/taboo-food-would-you-eat-this/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Taboo Food Would You Eat This?

What do you see in the sky at night? Rena Dam and Ryan Geertsma look at something amazing - the Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights. They look at the origin of the Northern Lights, and stories from around the world.Join this channel to get access to exclusive videos and script PDFs:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinhttps://spotlightenglish.com/science-and-technology/nature/northern-lights/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Northern Lights

Join our YouTube channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinWould you ever harm someone on purpose? Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid look at the difficult ethical choice made by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. What guides people to make the right choices?https://spotlightenglish.com/biography/bonhoeffer-making-difficult-choices/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Bonhoeffer: Making Difficult Choices

Join our YouTube channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/join2020 was a year unlike any other. The new coronavirus, SARS-CoV2, affected life all over the world. Spotlight tells the stories of people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.https://spotlightenglish.com/your-life/life-and-loneliness-during-covid-19/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Life and Loneliness During COVID-19

Join our YouTube channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPeqE9km-sipc9NCw02_4RQ/joinDo steroids make sports better? What problems do steroids cause? Are there any benefits? Joshua Leo and Liz Waid look at the issue of using steroid drugs in sports.https://spotlightenglish.com/sport/sports-and-steroids/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioSign up for our weekly newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/spotlightenglish/spotlight-newsletter Are you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment. Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Sports and Steroids

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