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. __ __ “'Seinfeld' writer and 'Borat' director Larry Charles” FRESH AIR - NPR and WHYY Philadelphia How Larry Charles went from selling jokes on the street to writing for ‘Seinfeld'. (45”) https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2025/06/17/fresh-air-for-june-17-2025?showDate=2025-06-17 “Mary Beard — Empress of Rome” BIG IDEAS - ABC Radio Naztional For decades, Mary Beard has forged her own path through the male dominated field of academia, from the ruins of Rome to the trenches of Twitter, to become "the world's most famous classicist". From the wise Augustus to the hypocritical Tiberius and the barking mad Caligula, Mary Beard uses these Roman rulers as a lens to examine life in their empire, and asks what lessons they can teach us about the world today. This event was recorded at Adelaide Writers' Week on March 3, 2024. Speakers: Mary Beard, Author, 'Emperor of Rome' (Allen & Unwin), Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge University; Jonty Claypole, Writer, documentary producer and arts administrator CEO, Red Room Poetry. Former Director of Arts, BBC (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/mary-beard-empress-of-rome-/103554104 — — 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.
