Most radio listening takes place in the car or while doing other things that
allow freedom for the ear, but not the eyes and hands. 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 in what sometimes seems like
a vain attempt to diminish the results of sitting behind a desk for 35 years.
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 is with the time spent commuting to work day after day.
Podcasting has expanded almost exponentially so very quickly 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.
Admittedly, these are thoroughly subjective recommendations, but my interests
and tolerance for incompatible views are pretty wide-ranging. Here’s another in
a continuing series of small samplings, offered in a 90 minute scope (more or
less):
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“The Life and Legacy of Paul Robeson"
BIG IDEAS - ABC RN
He was once called ‘the best known American in the world’. African American,
Paul Robeson, was an astonishing singer, a film star, and an elite scholar and
athlete. He was also the son of slave. Robeson would become a radical political
activist but his unwavering support for Stalin, and failure to renounce Soviet
communism, undermined his legacy as an early champion of civil rights. Paul
Barclay speaks to Robeson biographer, Jeff Sparrow, about his complex life, and
the resonance of his activism today. Recorded at Avid Reader bookstore in
Brisbane on 31 March, 2017. (55”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/the-life-and-legacy-of-paul-robeson/12150654
“Beer Around the World"
BIG IDEAS - ABC RN
Most every society has fermented alcoholic beverages - Mexican pulque, Peruvian
chicha, Japanese sake, Indian palm toddy, African sorghum beer. But the German
lager beer has largely displaced these local brewing traditions over the last
200 years to become a global consumer icon. That has many reasons—trade,
migration, colonialism—but the success of lager lies also in the fact that it's
so bland. Guests: Professor Jeffrey Pilcher, Expert in the emerging field of
food history and part of the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Culinaria
Research Initiative (55”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/beer-around-the-world/12072252
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occasion additional pertinent material, is now published in The CIDX Messenger,
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John Figliozzi
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