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. __ __ [Ed. Note: Some historians have suggested recently that the type of government Venice had during the medieval period could serve as a model for our times when democracy has seemed incapable and dictatorship is unwelcome.] “The Venetian Empire” IN OUR TIME - BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable rise of Venice in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike other Italian cities of the early medieval period, Venice had not been settled during the Roman Empire. Rather, it was a refuge for those fleeing unrest after the fall of Rome who settled on these boggy islands on a lagoon and developed into a power that ran an empire from mainland Italy, down the Adriatic coast, across the Peloponnese to Crete and Cyprus, past Constantinople and into the Black Sea. This was a city without walls, just one of the surprises for visitors who marvelled at the stability and influence of Venice right up to the 17th Century when the Ottomans, Spain, France and the Hapsburgs were to prove too much especially with trade shifting to the Atlantic. With Maartje van Gelder. Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam; Stephen Bowd,Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Edinburgh; Georg Christ, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester (51”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024fj3 “Lobbying in the US and Captain Cooks Last Voyage” LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC Radio National - The very lucrative practise of lobbying has moved beyond the corridors or Washington. Lobbyists now focus on shaping the opinion of constituents back home in their districts, cozying up to PR gurus, social media experts, pollsters, and grassroots organisers to further the interests of big US Corporations, and reshaping how both major political parties operate. Guest: Brody Mullins, author of 'The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government' (Simon and Schuster) - A new book suggests that Captain James Cook, while previously known as a man with a distinct knowledge of and respect for Indigenous peoples and with his crew, on his last voyage, misjudged and miscommunicated his way to his death at the hands of once friendly Hawaiians. Guest: Author and historian Hampton Sides author of 'The Wide Wide Sea - Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook'. (Random House) (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/lobbying-k-street-captain-cook/104462642 — — 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.
