Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion. I do it while taking my daily (more or less) 3 mile walk, while I’m “plodding along”.
While there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of great podcasts from other sources, the ones sponsored via public radio have been vetted through the worthy objectives of the medium. Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently. I hope you might find these suggestions — in roughly 90 minute bites -- helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium. __ __ “Five Canadian Thinkers take the IDEAS 'Reasonableness Questionnaire'” IDEAS - CBC Radio One Many laws rely on a distinction between reasonable and unreasonable behaviour. According to the influential American philosopher John Rawls, a liberal democratic society depends for its existence on the use of "public reason." Without this basis, Rawls argued, the society's institutions would collapse. Given the importance of telling reasonableness apart from its opposite, IDEAS invited five scholars from outside the legal profession to clarify their own definition of the term. Each scholar received one hour to answer a five-part questionnaire aimed at drawing out this definition and revealing any potential contradictions within it. (54”) <https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/defining-reasonableness-1.7105506> “Salman Rushdie" FRESH AIR - NPR/WHYY Philadelphia Two nights before he was stabbed onstage at a literary event in 2022, Salman Rushdie had a nightmare. In his dream, Rushdie was in an ancient Roman amphitheater, rolling around on the ground while a gladiator with a spear stabbed down at him. "It certainly felt very vivid and very actual and very scary," Rushdie says. "I was rolling about in bed and thrashing around, and my wife had to wake me up." His immediate impulse was to cancel his upcoming appearance at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, but then he rationalized his fear away: "People have dreams. You don't run your daily life because of having a bad dream. And so I decided I would go," Rushdie says. (44”) <https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244847366/salman-rushdie-knife> — — A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published in most editions of the CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX). For further information and membership information, go to www.cidxclub.ca John Figliozzi Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide” NEW!!!! 11th EDITION now available from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.com.au <http://amazon.com.au/> Constructive reviews from purchasers welcomed on the Amazon site. _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list Internetradio@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to internetradio-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
