Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually 
any convenient occasion.  I do it while “power walking” (most) every morning.  
The act of putting one foot in front of the other can be pretty monotonous and 
by “podding along” while plodding along the mind also gets something useful to 
do.  So it can be with the time spent gardening, washing dishes, preparing 
meals and many other day to day activities.

Podcasting has grown to the point that it can justly be considered a medium all 
its own.  Therefore, the attempt here has to be to highlight only a small 
portion of it, just one corner where excellence reigns.

Some of the best radio comes from the public networks of the UK, Australia, 
Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.  Apart from the originating program’s 
web site, most programs are made available through any number of other 
amalgamation sources such as iTunes and TuneIn. 

This continuing series of small samplings in more or less 90 minute helpings 
are curated by me.  I attest to the fact that I have listened to every podcast 
listed here.  So admittedly these are thoroughly subjective recommendations.  
But my interests and tolerance for incompatible topics and views are pretty 
wide-ranging, even if I do say so myself. 

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"EU recovery plans; Vietnam's success; Seafarers in Australia; the psychology 
of compliance and A Foreign Affair panel”
EXTRA - ABC RN
In what's being hailed as a historic deal, the EU agreed to a massive pandemic 
recovery package which seems to have placated both the spenders and the 
'frugals' in the bloc. But can this solidarity hold?  Vietnam has had no 
community transmissions of coronavirus for three months. That's partly because 
it made an early decision to close the border with its northern neighbour, 
China.  Vietnam's China relationship was under pressure already, but it seems 
the country's Covid success is adding to its blossoming international 
reputation. We heard last week on this program about the estimated 300,000 
stranded merchant seamen on ships around the world – unable to go ashore 
because of the coronavirus pandemic. There are hundreds off the shores of 
Australia at any one time. Today we look at their situation. Why do some people 
do the right things in a communal effort and others, don’t?  Press freedom 
shrinks under the cover of Covid-19, how Russia became so friendly with the 
Taliban and Tik Tok in trouble. (84”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/july-25th/12489030

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A monthly (well, mostly monthly) compendium of these newsletters, plus on 
occasion additional pertinent material, is now published in The CIDX Messenger, 
the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX).  For 
further information, go to www.cidx.ca

John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide”
NEW! 184 page 9th EDITION available NOW from Universal Radio 
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