I have been aware of Voice of America Radio for a long time. I learned the international broadcast service was started by the US government in 1939. When I worked overseas in the 1980's and 1990's, I heard their news in "special English". I always thought is sounded very silly! Rather than adjusting the sentence structure and vocabulary, the announcers just read the news items very ... S ... L ... O ... W ... L ...Y !
Apparently, VOA is still alive and kicking and on the Internet too. All audio and video materials they produce are public domain. I will try using some of the science and business audio during lab. I suppose I should not pass judgement until I hear what my ESL students think about VOA's "special English".
This audio from VOA is saved in WMA format.
If you click this image, you will hear a 14-minute,
medium-bandwidth file.