2008-03-12 Music Would Not be the Same Without the Guitar
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a very popular musical instrument. Listen and see if…
2008-03-05 Chocolate Has a History as Rich as Its Taste
VOICE ONE: I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Cacao fruit with seeds inside Today we travel around the world exploring the…
2008-02-27 Doc Holliday: One of the Most Famous, and Dangerous, Gunfighters of the Old West
VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: Doc Holliday And this is Doug Johnson with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Many stories have been told about the old American…
2008-02-20 Understanding Happiness
VOICE ONE: I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. For thousands of years, people have been debating the meaning of happiness and…
2008-02-13 From San Diego to San Francisco, Visiting the Beautiful Missions Along the Coast of California
VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the first attempts to settle what is now the…
2008-02-06 Hiking the Appalachian Trail Through the Mountains of 14 States
VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most popular walking paths in the…
2008-01-30 Disputes on Stolen Art Bring Up Complex Legal and Cultural Issues
VOICE ONE: I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the British Museum in London, millions of people every year visit a…
2008-01-23 Sounds of the Solar System Are Music to the Ears (of Space Scientists)
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by…
2008-01-16 These Modern Structures Are Wonders of the World (Third of Three Parts)
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we finish our series of programs about the Wonders of…
2008-01-09 These Places are Natural Wonders of the World
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we bring you the second of three programs about beautiful…
2008-01-02 Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Plus a Few More
VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we present the first of three programs about some of…
2007-12-26 Protecting Native American Languages and Culture
VOICE ONE: I’m Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This is the last in our series of reports about efforts to keep…
2007-12-19 For Art Lovers, Art Basel in Miami Beach Was the Place to Be
VOICE ONE: I’m Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I’m Pat Bodnar with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel to the warm and sunny city of Miami, Florida to…
2007-12-12 Erie Canal: How an Idea That Some Laughed at Became America’s First National Waterway
VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. In the early eighteen hundreds, traveling in the United States was dangerous. Business…
2007-11-28 American Folklife Center: Preserving the Voices, Songs and Stories of Everyday People
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. We continue our series of reports about efforts to keep alive some traditional…