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It's written in Japanese, which will make it very difficult to read for most of the audience looking at this site, but she likes photography like me, so just look at the pictures if your interested. I use a little tool called Rikaichan to help me read sites written in Japanese. It is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox.
This is a BBC radio programming focusing on new technology. Their stories are not too "techie" for the average Joe, because they are on a range diverse topics, from the latest Mobile Phone technology, to sociological projects about survailence cameras in London.
I first found this site through iTunes. They have excellent lessons, starting from beginner, to advanced. They also have a week long trial membership, so you can try before you buy. Unfortunately they recently redesigned their site so that it doesn't look as stylish as it used to, and doesn't offer as much free content, such as forum.