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.] __ __ “” I’M SORRY I HAVEN’T A CLUE - BBC Radio 4 Classic BBC comedy panel show mimicking and satirizing game shows. Improv and very funny. (28”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnwb “Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles” THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR - NPR and WNYC New York Public Radio The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. But L.A.—where nearly forty per cent of residents are foreign-born—became ground zero for controversial arrests and deportations by ICE. The Trump Administration deployed marines and the National Guard to the city, purportedly to quell protests against the operation, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, spoke of the government’s intention to “liberate” Los Angeles from its elected officials. This week, David Remnick talks with the city’s mayor, Karen Bass, a former congressional representative, about the recent withdrawal of some troops, and a lawsuit the city has joined arguing that the Trump Administration’s immigration raids and detentions are unconstitutional. (A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the government.) “I’ve described L.A. as a petri dish,” Bass says. The Administration “wanted to . . . show that they could come in and do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, and however they wanted. They were putting every other city in America on notice: ‘mess with us will come for you.’ ” (30”) https://www.npr.org/podcasts/458929150/the-new-yorker-radio-hour (scroll down to July 25, 2025) “Could the Baltic States be the new Ukraine?” REAR VISION - ABC Radio National The Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – once part of the Soviet Union - are now all members of NATO. But Latvia and Estonia both have large Russian speaking minorities. Analysts worry that Russia could use these minorities as an excuse to impinge on their sovereignty. Could the Baltic States become the new Ukraine and if so, would the rest of NATO invoke article 5 and go to war with Russia? Guests: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent for Times of London and author of 'Baltic: The Future of Europe’; Andres Kasekamp, Professor of Estonian history at the University of Toronto and author of 'A History of the Baltic States’; Dr Joris Van Bladel, Senior Research Fellow - Egmont - Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels and author of 'Land of the Great Sacrifice: How Russia Defies Western Logic’. (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/russia-the-baltic-states-be-the-new-ukraine-/105551662 — — 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.
