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: Public service media — the kind that prioritizes serving the public’s requirement for reliable information over securing the support of advertisers through emotional appeals and sensational exhibitionism — is under attack everywhere, but especially at the moment in the United State. When you weigh the decision whether to directly support public service media (if you don’t do so already), be aware of this crucial difference in the respective missions of these two forms. Do you want to be exploited for someone else’s profit or do you want to be truly informed about matters that both affect you and over which you have some direct control through your vote? If you take the time to really think about it, the only correct answer is the latter. Become a sustaining member of your local public service media.] __ __ “Rethinking streets as third spaces in the car-dependent US” THE URBANIST - Monocle Radio How one of the world’s most car-dependent nations can make its streets more pedestrian friendly. (28”) https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist/719/ “The Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”” THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR - NPR and WNYC New York Public Radio “I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with whatever the hell is going on right now,” the writer-director Ari Aster tells Adam Howard, a senior producer of the Radio Hour. “ ‘Eddington’ is a film about a bunch of people who . . . know that something’s wrong. They just—nobody can agree on what that thing is.” Many of us would prefer to forget a fearful time like the spring and summer of 2020, but Aster is relentless about putting his characters and his audience in states of anxiety, whether in his horror films “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” or in the more genre-bending “Beau Is Afraid.” “Eddington,” his latest, is a neo-noir Western featuring a gun-toting, libertarian sheriff, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who confronts COVID, the George Floyd protests, and a mysterious A.I. data center that’s being built in his county. It’s like a hand grenade tossed into the traditional summer-movie season. The film is unapologetically political, but its satire doesn’t spare either side of the aisle. “My concern,” Aster admits, “is that I don't know how much of a hunger people have anymore for anything controversial or challenging.” (25”) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/director-ari-aster-explains-his-covidera-western-eddington “Dreaming in Green and Gold” SUNDAY MISCELLANY - RTE Radio 1 New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music*, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968. This week, All-Ireland football hopes from Kenmare to Killybegs, Leonard Cohen’s magical Lissadell concert, and more, with John Toal, Regina Devenney, John S Doyle, Tony Griffin, Noel King, Denise Blake and John Cooney. (34”) https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22533635-dreaming-in-green-and-gold/ *The above link takes one to the abbreviated podcast version. Due to copyright restrictions, episodes with full music accompaniment can only be accessed directly from the station’s website rte.ie <http://rte.ie/> . — — 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.
