Get ready to set sail on the open seas with a five-part audiobook all about pirates. "Jack and the Pirate School" details a tale about a young boy who accidentally attends pirate school instead of sailing school.

What happens when a whale bites off more than he can chew? Rudyard Kipling's classic story "How the Whale Got His Throat" was originally part of his 1903 Just So Stories, and is featured as an audio story to accompany a transcript of the...

How good is your hearing? Take a hearing test to determine the range of frequencies that you, other humans, and other animals can hear.

Explains how the brain is able to understand sounds and speech. Aired May 29, 2009 [12:27]

An interview with author E. L. Doctorow in which he discusses how he decided to become a writer and how he learned to hear music in words. Links to other NPR reports about his writing, as well as to other sites about Doctorow.

We'll talk about research into how people hear, from the tiny hair cells within the ear, to the body's ways of dealing with loud noises.

This section of the BBC Learning English site focuses on pronunciation. There are five lessons on confusing vowel sounds, and a phonemic chart that allows the user to hear pronunciations of all 44 sounds used in English.

Three sound files provide an opportunity to hear a single wolf howl, a wolf pack howl and the wolf pack howl of both the adults and the young. Requires QuickTime.

This website allows you to listen in on the sounds of the ocean, particular the calls from right whales. Hear an up-call and other whale sounds. Also listen to whale sounds through acoustic smog and learn how to read a spectrogram.

Listen to the original recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," with Gershwin himself on piano, and hear what orchestral jazz of the 1920s actually sounded like.

This gifted pianist associates a specific color for every musical note. Known as synesthesia, this rare condition is only apparent in one person out of several thousand. Read this cover story and discover more about this interesting...

Hear about the First World War from those who were there. Discover how the war affected everyone who lived through it in these podcasts, featuring original recordings from IWM's sound collection. The series takes you from the outbreak of...