The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Guest presenters: Antonio (Spain) and Adriana (Brazil)
Topic: Future plans and predictions

In this show, adult English language students in GO5, a pre-intermediate level general English course at the Bardwell Road Adult Centre, St Clare's, Oxford, talk about their future plans and predictions.

Antonio and Adriana introduce and end the show, interview their classmates, and chose the linking music.

- Nicolas talks about his personal plans after St Clare's, and about the future of Belgium's economy
- Sofia talks about the future economy of Portugal
- Thomas talks about the political and economic future of Venezuela
- Cesar (Spain) talks about the future climate and weather of the world
- Adriana talks about the problem of violence and drugs in Brazil in the future
- Antonio (Spain) talks about his personal plans after St Clare's.

As well as helping the students prepare the content for the show, the class's second teacher, Bridget, is shouldering a lot of the thinking about format and content. Thanks, Bridget!

The show was recorded in Bridget's class on Geoff's Apple PowerBook computer with the program Garageband 3.

Apologies: The sound quality of this podcast is well below our normal high standard. I'm really sorry about this, because the content of the podcast is very interesting. Unfortunately, there was a low level "hiss" in the original speech recordings that I couldn't get rid of in post-production. (I think for some reason the external microphone didn't work, and we actually recorded on the PowerBook's internal microphone, which doesn't produce brilliant results.)