If you’ve been listening to Plain English for a while, you might want to know where to find the free Plain English transcripts that we talk about on every episode.
✅ Want the fast answer? Click here to see an index of all transcripts.
How the transcripts are structured
Before we show you where to find the transcripts, learn how they’re structured.
Each Plain English episode in your podcast feed is about 20 to 25 minutes. All episodes have two parts: the current events story and the expression:
Story
The first part of each podcast episode is a story about current events, trending topics, or something going on in the world. This is called the Story.
Expression
The second part of each podcast episode is a lesson about how to use a common English expression or phrasal verb. This is called the Expression.
💡Tip: The transcript Story and the Expression are on two separate pages. That means each podcast episode transcript is on two pages.
Where to find them
There are four ways to find the transcripts of each episode:
From the transcript index
By episode number
On your Dashboard
From the Stories and Expressions libraries
If you know what episode you want to see, you should look it up by the transcript index or the episode number.
From the transcript index
You can see an index of all episode transcripts on the All Transcripts page.
On that page, all episode transcripts are listed, from #1 through to the present day. Remember that each episode has two parts, the Story and the Expression:
Click the numbers at the top to jump to later episodes.
By episode number
If you listen on Spotify, YouTube, or a podcast app, you'll notice that every episode has an episode number.
For example, episode #700 was about National Parks and the expression, "one of a kind."
To get to the transcripts, visit PlainEnglish.com/###, where ### is the episode number. So:
Find the transcripts for Episode 700 at: https://plainenglish.com/700
Find the transcript for Episode 707 at: https://plainenglish.com/707
The page looks like this:
To get to the transcript, click on the Story headline ("Mountains, desert...") for the first half of the transcript. Click on the Expression headline ("One of a kind") for the second half of the transcript.
From the Story and Expression libraries
If you don't know what transcript you want to find, you can explore past episodes and transcripts via the Stories Library and the Expressions Library.
The Libraries are pages that show our full history of content. You can access the Libraries via the "Learn" tab at the top of the page:
Stories Library
The most recently-released Stories appear at the top of the page. Click on any headline to see the transcript of that episode.
You can also brows past Stories by topic. Scroll to the section called "All Stories" and click a category that interests you:
Expressions Library
The most recently-released Expressions appear at the top of the page. Click any headline to see the transcript of that episode.
You can browse the full history of Expressions in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page:
From the Dashboard
Logged-in users to PlainEnglish.com can access the most recent Stories and Expressions from the Dashboard, the members'-only home page.
