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. __ __ “Labor's stunning landslide, plus the hangover from Australia's wine boom” LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC Radio National Laura Tingle and Niki Savva dissect Labor's landslide victory in the federal election, and examine what went wrong for the Coalition. Plus, writer Nick Ryan explains why there's a glut of wine in Australia. (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/late-night-live-laura-tingle-niki-savva-nick-ryan/105179592 [Ed. Note: The US and NY’s state governments have ballyhhooed enormous spending and effort to extend fully modernized Internet services to the entire population, but only with middling success. This program from the year 2020 and Australia still resonates today with the experience of that here.] “What happened to the NBN, Australia's 'information superhighway'?” REAR VISION - ABC Radio National The National Broadband Network could have been Australia’s landmark twenty-first century infrastructure project but it became a political hot potato, leaving us with an expensive, compromised system that’s in need of an upgrade before it’s even finished. (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/the-nbn---australias-information-superhighway/12144884 — — 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” 11th EDITION, with comprehensive listings of radio programs on AM, FM, shortwave, satellite radio, internet-wifi radio and podcasts, available from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.com.au _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
