Business Podcast Episodes to Improve your English Listening Skills

One of the areas of English which most learners worry about is their listening skills, especially when speaking by phone or attending important meetings. Although listening is one of the last skills that learners develop, there are things which you can do to improve it by yourself.

One of these (and for me the best) is to regularly listen to things in English. And in my experience listening to podcasts is the one (if not the best) way to do this.

What podcasts to listen to

There are hundreds of podcasts which you can find on business, work and economics. However, many of these are very long. The one which I recommended that you use is from the BBC and is called "Witness History". The good thing about these podcast episodes (and why I use them with all my students every week) is that they are short (around 9 minutes). In addition, it is not only the same people talking, so you will hear a variety of different accents used from different countries (both native and non-native speakers).

Below are 10 episodes which I recommend that you listen to on business, work and economics. You will find many more on these topics on BBC Witness History, but these I think you will find useful for your needs:


You will not only podcasts on business or money related topics on BBC Witness History, but on every topic imaginable (and this is one of the main reasons why I use it with my students). Although your main goal is probably to improve your listening and general language level for work and business, people don’t only just speak about these topics in these situations, so improving your general knowledge of diverse topics is a must for not only personal life, but your professional life too.

So after listening to these selected podcasts, go and have a look at the episodes available (there are thousands of them!) and enjoy your listening.