Self-assessment of online listening to podcast 2

The second podcast I listened to was "Featuring Egypt and Uzbekistan". I found this podcast in this website address http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20071103-1249.mp3. Although this one was very long about 29 min., I found it interesting, because here was talking about real events happened in the world recently. In this podcast was talking about Natalia Antelava, who remembers the life and death of Uzbek journalist Alisher Saipov, whose outspoken criticism of the government cost him his life. In Sydney, Phil Merces discovers that for many expatriates a life "down-under" is not for them, and Jenny Cuffe discovers love blossoms despite the shadow of conflict in Iraq's northern autonomous region. The level of English was advanced and the rate of speaking was fast. I think that the speakers accent was British. I listened this podcast once, because it was very long. But it was enough for me to understand the main point. I did not find a transcript of this podcast, so I can't look to a whole text. In this listening was a lot of unknown words for me. During listening I marked some of them:outspoken, expatriates and blossoms.After listening I looked up the meaning of this words in a dictionary. I suppose that I have still practice to be completely prepared for my exam listening paper.