Spotlight English: Advanced

This is the second program in a five-part series about showing love to other people. Colin Lowther and Liz Waid look at showing love to other people by sharing special times.

Bed nets? Medicine? Genetic engineering? Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland look at new methods for stopping the deadly disease malaria.

Can hunting improve the environment for people and animals? Spotlight looks at the issue of conservation hunting.

This is the first program in a five-part series about showing love to other people. Liz Waid and Adam Navis look at using kind words to express love.

Megan Nollet and Bruce Gulland look at the issue of mixed sports. Can men and women truly compete against each other?

Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland tell about Hawaii’s Hokule’a. This traditional canoe is helping to preserve a culture.

Liz Waid and Colin Lowther look at a creative housing project in the Netherlands – turning prisons into temporary safe homes for refugees.

What would you do to take the perfect selfie? Would you do something dangerous? Crazy? Adam Navis and Katy Blake tell about government efforts to stop people from taking dangerous selfies.

Adam Navis and Liz Waid look at the popular video game Fortnite. This popular game has even influenced culture.

Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland look at the terrible disease smallpox, and the debate about destroying the last small amounts of it.

Megan Nollet and Bruce Gulland look at the history and meaning of beards. Does having a beard make you more of a man?

Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid look at ancient places like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids. These structures were built without modern tools. But how – and why?

Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid look at the harmful practice of using skin whitening creams and lotions.

What would you do to take the perfect selfie? Would you do something dangerous? Crazy? Adam Navis and Katy Blake tell about government efforts to stop people from taking dangerous selfies.

Just because you can walk anywhere you want, doesn’t mean you should. Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid tell about the rules for hiking in Norway.

Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid look at the history and work of the Red Cross, the Red Crescent and the Red Crystal.

Liz Waid and Colin Lowther tell about the traditional storyteller in Turkey – Nasreddin Hodja. He has a way of making people think differently!

Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid look at how people around the world drink alcohol. Some drink every day, but some never drink it. Why is there such a difference?

Do you have a good father? Adam Navis and Liz Waid look at what it means to be a good father. Can a person become a better father?

Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland look at a difficult subject - being close to someone who is dying. They look at four things to say that can help.

Liz Waid and Colin Lowther tell about Brazilian professional surfer Derek Rabelo. This sport depends on seeing, but Derek is blind.

Colin Lowther and Liz Waid look at the history and science of sleep. They investigate the benefits and troubles of getting a good night’s sleep.

How many pairs of shoes do you own? Colin Lowther and Liz Waid look at a culture of people who collect one kind of shoe.

Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland discuss a difficult issue for many parents - is it good to punish children by hitting them?

Liz Waid and Adam Navis tell about the world’s time zones. This global system helps us organize time around the entire world.