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LearnEnglish Themes Podcasts are for learners at Intermediate to Advanced level and cover a large number of themes. For this trial period, we will publish a new podcast every month.

LearnEnglish Themes Podcasts are a way for you to practise your English language listening skills. You can listen on your computer, or download to your mp3 player.

The recorded article is accompanied by an activity that you can do on your computer while you listen, or print out and do when you want. They are free, and if you subscribe we will send them to you every month.

You can also link to theme-related stories and poems, word games, cartoons, trivia and selected external sites.

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Rock 'n' roll grandads
by Chris Rose
If you think that “A Bigger Bang” was their 25th album now the Rolling Stones have been around for more than 40 years, and that singer Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards and the other musicians are all well into their 60s, and are all grandfathers, it starts to look a bit strange.
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