English News Weekly

This week's English News Weekly podcast reports very worrying news for anyone out there who has a fondness for bananas! The second most grown fruit in the world (yes ENW knows it is technically a berry) is in danger of being wiped out by a powerful fungus. This is the biggest crisis to face banana-producing areas since the 1950s when Panama Disease virtually annihilated Gros Michel Banana – at the time the most grown banana in the world! What is happening? Can it be stopped? English News Weekly will try to explain all... (PDF) Download MP3