{"podcast":{"title":"Learning English from the News","slug":"learning-english-from-the-news-1026559","podcast_index_feed_id":1026559,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p05hw4bq.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hw4bq","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0hvw5fz.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":386,"summary":"Learn the language you need to understand news stories in English. Every week we talk about one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it. And in our special Our World in English episodes, we share documentaries from around the world and across the BBC in simple English. Find more at bbclearningenglish.com Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:22.639525+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559"},"episode":{"title":"Our World in English: The battle for the cowboy way of life","slug":"our-world-in-english-the-battle-for-the-cowboy-way-of-life","published_at":"2026-02-13T10:42:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559/our-world-in-english-the-battle-for-the-cowboy-way-of-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n0x259","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0n0x1pj.mp3","summary":"People in Montana, US worry that they will lose the land the makes the place special. Nearly half of all the land in the American west is owned by the federal government. Some people want to change that and sell the land to build houses and businesses. But in Montana, a western state known for wide open spaces and cowboys, lots of people rely on the government land. They worry that their cowboy way of life is under threat. In this short documentary, we meet Brud Smith, who owns a farm in Montana, and hear about how the place is changing. Transcript and vocabulary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/our-world-in-english/260213 This programme is based on the documentary The real Yellowstone: A battle for the cowboy way of life from Assignment on the BBC World Service. The original programme was reported by Ellie House and produced by Josephine Casserly. Find more about Assignment here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsn0","meta_description":"People in Montana, US worry that they will lose the land the makes the place special. Nearly half of all the land in the American west is owned by the fed…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":765,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559/episodes/our-world-in-english-the-battle-for-the-cowboy-way-of-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559/our-world-in-english-the-battle-for-the-cowboy-way-of-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}