English Conversations is a great site, with interesting multicultural conversations and accompanying tapescripts, for free. There is material for different levels, from easy to completely authentic! Check it out!
Selected Episodes
Vocabulary & more in bilingual Spanish/English (Easy English)
Interviewing Kirsten from Tasmania (all levels, esp. from Intermediate on)
I was doing yoga (Intermediate)
The Tamil minority in Sri Lanka (Advanced, or people used to Asian accent)
Pic at noaman And it really is.
(July 24, 2006: Memorial to commemorate Black July, 1983 -- where
the Sri Lankan government and Sinhalese ethnic nationalists massacred thousands
of Tamils in Sri Lanka. The massacres continue to this day, and so this was also
a rally of defiance and protest.)