Bananas - The Worlds Favorite Fruit

Roger Basick and Gillian Woodward talk about the creator of one of the most successful characters in newspaper history. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/playing-with-peanuts/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http:/ ...  Show more

Andrew Devis and Alice Irizarry talk about the different engagement and wedding traditions around the world. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/were-getting-married-wedding-traditions-around-the-world/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download ...  Show more

The banana, once a luxury good, rose to become America’s favorite fruit. Now a deadly fungus threatens to wipe it out. Can it be saved?

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Li thinks Neil is a bit out of control and says he's gone bananas. Has this got anything to do with fruit? 

On this episode of Our American Stories, if you think of the quintessential American fruit, it would probably have to be the apple. But apples are not our cheapest fruit—bananas are! But why? Here’s the History Guy with the story of the banana. Support the show ( https://www.ouram ...  Show more

The banana is a staple of the American diet and has been for generations. But how did this exotic tropical fruit become so commonplace? How one Brooklyn-born entrepreneur ruthlessly created the modern banana industry and the infamous banana republics.See pcm.adswizz.com for infor ...  Show more