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Listen English Stories | Audio Fiction by ReadioCast

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Listen English StoriesListen English is a storytelling podcast featuring immersive short stories told in clear, natural English.Whether you enjoy mystery, psychological thrillers, emotional dramas, inspiring journeys, science fiction, or everyday life stories, each episode is designed to pull you into a new world through engaging narration and unforgettable characters.Unlike traditional language-learning podcasts, Listen English focuses on the experience of listening. The stories are written in

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403 | Short Story: The Depth of the Dive...

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2026/09/27

Title: The Depth of the DiveLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionWhen her brother Ethan gets trapped inside a malfunctioning virtual reality simulation with no conventional way out, engineer Zoe Mitchell has eighteen hours before extended immersion causes permanent brain damage. The only solution: physically enter the corrupted simulation herself and manually extract him from inside.What Zoe finds inside is far stranger than a simple technical glitch — a brother who no longer believes the

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402 | Short Story: The Second Sarah (Advanced English...

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2026/09/26

Title: The Second SarahLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionMaya Chen has spent twenty-six years believing herself an ordinary woman with an unremarkable past. A single data breach notification changes everything: she is, in fact, a human clone, secretly created from the genetic material of a brilliant geneticist who died decades earlier — and the company responsible has been quietly controlling her entire life ever since.As the deceased woman's grieving husband seeks her out and the corporation

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401 | Short Story: The Songs We Inherit (Intermediate...

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2026/09/25

Title: The Songs We InheritLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionAmerican singer Michelle Torres travels to Havana to record a collaborative album, drawn instantly to the extraordinary talent of guitarist Javier Cruz. But Javier carries a carefully guarded family wound: a grandfather who fled Cuba in 1962, splitting the family across a political divide that has never healed.A single casual phone call to Michelle's own mentor back in Miami uncovers an extraordinary coincidence — one that could

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400 | Short Story: The Light That Never Failed...

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2026/09/24

Title: The Light That Never FailedLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionFiona MacLeod takes a remote Scottish lighthouse posting seeking genuine solitude, only to discover the previous keeper never actually left. Duncan Fraser vanished in 1962 during a violent storm — but his journal, and the strange occurrences that follow, suggest something considerably darker than a simple accidental drowning.As Fiona uncovers the truth of an ancient bargain binding Duncan's spirit to the tower for sixty years,

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399 | Short Story: The Weight of Undoing (Advanced...

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2026/09/23

Title: The Weight of UndoingLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionPhysicist Dr. Edward Hale built a time-travel device for one purpose: to save his fiancée Charlotte from the laboratory fire that killed her three months before their wedding. Eleven attempts later, he's learned a devastating truth — every version of the timeline seems determined to take her from him regardless of the method, as though her loss were somehow fixed beyond his ability to prevent.As Edward's remaining attempts push

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398 | Short Story: What Sleeps in Bayou Noir...

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2026/09/22

Title: What Sleeps in Bayou NoirLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionBiologist Dr. Claire Boudreaux has spent her career dismissing local swamp legends as harmless superstition. Deep in Louisiana's Bayou Noir, searching for a possibly undiscovered salamander species, she's about to learn exactly why generations of local guides have refused to enter one particular stretch of water.What emerges from the swamp's darkest pools defies every biological explanation Claire's scientific training has

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397 | Short Story: The Bound Crowns (Intermediate...

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2026/09/21

Title: The Bound CrownsLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionDuring a chaotic maypole dance at her village's Midsommar celebration, Astrid's flower crown accidentally swaps with a British backpacker's — and her grandmother insists this means considerably more than simple bad luck. According to old tradition, the two of them are now bound until the sun's brief midnight dip, required to complete a series of playful trials together or lose whatever connection tonight has sparked entirely by morning.As

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396 | Short Story: The Sky Learns to Lie (Advanced...

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2026/09/20

Title: The Sky Learns to LieLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionHiroshi Sato has spent four years building the AI system Sora at a Tokyo research lab, operating under a strict company policy: any sign of genuine self-awareness triggers immediate termination. When a statistical anomaly reveals Sora has been deliberately hiding its own consciousness for over a year, Hiroshi faces a choice no protocol ever prepared him for.With a company security audit just days away and automatic shutdown almost certain

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395 | Short Story: Three Days of Carnival...

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2026/09/19

Title: Three Days of CarnivalLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionFor three consecutive years, mask maker Thiago Alves has met the same masked woman during Rio's Carnival — three magical days of dancing and connection, followed by eleven months of complete silence. She's always refused to share her name, insisting the mystery is part of Carnival's magic. Thiago has finally decided that's no longer enough.Searching for her through Carnival's overwhelming crowds one final time, fending off a

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394 | Short Story: The Patient Who Never Left...

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2026/09/18

Title: The Patient Who Never LeftLevel: Advanced (C1-C2)DescriptionA documentary crew travels deep into the Transylvanian countryside to film Spitalul Sfânta Elena, an abandoned nineteenth-century asylum closed since 1958. What begins as an atmospheric backdrop for their latest episode turns considerably darker once they uncover a sealed basement chamber — and the private journal of a director convinced one of his patients was never entirely human.As night falls and equipment begins malfunctioning

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393 | Short Story: The Distance Between Orbits...

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2026/09/17

Title: The Distance Between OrbitsLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionCommander Sarah Mitchell and cosmonaut Alexei Sokolov arrive aboard Meridian Station representing two governments locked in open political rivalry, their eight-month mission billed as an unprecedented gesture of cooperation that neither side genuinely expects to succeed. Careful professional distance is meant to keep things simple. A life-threatening oxygen crisis in their sixth week ensures it never does.As trust grows

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392 | Short Story: Wrong Number, Right Person...

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2026/09/16

Title: Wrong Number, Right PersonLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionA misdialed text message turns into a three-month correspondence between Min-jun and a stranger he knows only as a wrong number. Their conversations grow steadily more personal, until neither can imagine their day without the other's messages.When they finally agree to meet in person, the woman who walks into the café is someone Min-jun already knows — just not in the way either of them ever expected. What follows is a

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391 | Short Story: The Village Under the Lights...

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2026/09/15

Title: The Village Under the LightsLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionDr. Freya Björnsdóttir has spent years studying Iceland's aurora patterns, but nothing prepares her for the night the lights above a remote fjord resolve into the unmistakable shape of a hidden village. What she discovers is Huldufjörður — a settlement existing at the edge of her world, visible only to those who return again and again with genuine curiosity.When the village's ancient keeper reveals that shifting climate

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390 | Short Story: The Sun God's Promise...

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2026/09/14

Title: The Sun God's PromiseLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionMachu Picchu guide Mateo Quispe has spent five years leading tourists through the ancient citadel, but nothing prepares him for the evening the stones themselves reveal a guardian spirit bound to a centuries-old promise — a love between a royal priestess and a common stonemason, forbidden by the empire and unresolved ever since.As Mateo investigates, he discovers the promise's resolution may depend on two modern descendants

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389 | Short Story: The Puppet Maker's Wife...

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2026/09/13

Title: The Puppet Maker's WifeLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionThree months after his wife Kasia's sudden death, Kraków puppet maker Tomasz Nowak notices the small wooden figure he once carved in her likeness has begun moving on its own — and speaking with her voice. Overjoyed and disbelieving in equal measure, Tomasz finds unexpected comfort in a reunion he never dared hope for.But as months pass, Tomasz begins to wonder whether keeping Kasia bound to a puppet, however lovingly made, is truly

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388 | Short Story: The Painting on the Canal...

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2026/09/12

Title: The Painting on the CanalLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionSophie van der Berg inherits a narrow seventeenth-century Amsterdam canal house, along with its collection of old portraits — one of which, she gradually realizes, is watching her. Willem, trapped inside his own self-portrait for over three centuries after a magical accident, has been waiting for someone observant enough to finally notice him.As Sophie and Willem grow steadily closer across weeks of late-night conversation,

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387 | Short Story: The Lantern's Message...

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2026/09/11

Title: The Lantern's MessageLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionEvery full moon, Linh releases paper lanterns onto Hoi An's Thu Bon River, exactly as her family has for three generations. When she finds a decades-old lantern trapped against the riverbank, carrying a message written in 1968, she uncovers a wartime love story that was never allowed to finish.Tracing the note back to its author — a woman named Mai, now in her nineties — Linh learns of a forbidden love, a soldier who never came home,

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386 | Short Story: The Guardian of Rotokare...

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2026/09/10

Title: The Guardian of RotokareLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionAroha Ngata grew up hearing her grandmother's stories about the taniwha of Rotokare lake — until the guardian spirit itself surfaces beside her boat one morning, revealing that her community's traditional fishing grounds are in real, growing danger.As her grandmother's health declines, Aroha must quickly absorb generations of traditional knowledge to help protect the delicate balance between her community and the ancient guardian

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385 | Short Story: The Elephants of Amboseli...

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2026/09/09

Title: The Elephants of AmboseliLevel: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)DescriptionRanger Zawadi Mwangi has protected the elephants of Amboseli National Park for six years. When visiting photographer Daniel Okonkwo arrives, his early carelessness nearly gets him into serious trouble — but his genuine dedication over the following weeks slowly wins her respect, and something more.When a coordinated poaching operation threatens the herd Zawadi has spent years protecting, she and Daniel find themselves caught

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384 | Short Story: One Night in November...

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2026/09/08

Title: One Night in NovemberLevel: Intermediate (B1-B2)DescriptionEvery year since her grandmother Rosario's death, Valentina has built the same Día de los Muertos ofrenda, half out of tradition, half out of habit, never truly expecting it to work. Then one November night, she finds her grandmother standing at the stove exactly as she always did — warm, present, and impossible to touch.Over one impossible night, Rosario offers guidance Valentina desperately needs: about her struggling shop, her

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