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 (225 minutes this one time) -- helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium. __ __ “How Will Technology Impact the US Election?” DOWNLOAD THIS SHOW - ABC RN (Radio National) With less than two months to go, all eyes will be on the United States as voters head to the polls to elect the next US president. The stakes are higher than ever before, how much is technology effecting the election? Guests: Josh Taylor, tech reporter with The Guardian (in Perth) Xiao Han Drummond, CEO and founder of the Centre for Responsible Innovation. (28”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/downloadthisshow/download-this-show-us-election/104223988 [Ed. Note: At time of posting this e-mail, ABC-RN had not yet made this recording available. Hopefully, it will have by the time you’ve read this or soon thereafter. Am interesting and most pertinent conversation.] “Eric Beecher on Media Moguls and the Broken Promises at Wybalenna” LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC RN (Radio National) Eric Beecher looks back at some of the media dynasties through history including the Murdochs, how they use and abuse their power. And on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait, restoration work on the Aboriginal settlement Wybalenna has stalled. It is a significant cultural site where many Tasmanian Aboriginal people were sent in 1831. Only 47 survived. (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/eric-beecher-media-wybalenna-flinders-island/104224000 — — A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published every other month in 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 _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
