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. __ __ “Calvin Trillum: A Warm Weather Nova Scotian” IDEAS - CBC Radio One New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin likes to say he's six percent Canadian as he has spent more than 55 summers in Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, Trillin and his late wife Alice bought an old house on the ocean in Port Medway, on the province's south shore. It's a place he calls home. IDEAS producer Mary Lynk lives nearby and popped by in late August 2024 for a casual chat with the 88-year-old author. Their chat ranged from what America would mean if Trump wins, to his fascination with the Yiddish word: meeskite. (54”) https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16094460-new-yorker-writer-calvin-trillin-a-warm-weather “What is the Moral Value of Disgust?” MORAL MAZE - BBC Radio 4 How much attention should we pay to our knee-jerk sense of right and wrong when judging the actions of other people? Evolutionary psychologists describe how the emotion of disgust was a survival mechanism against the spread of disease. Thus, ritual purity, enforced by religious edict, was vital for the moral and spiritual life of our ancestors. But does disgust still carry moral weight in a modern, secular, and technologically advanced society, or is it merely an evolutionary hangover? Just because we think something is wrong, how do we know that it is? And do we have the right, as a society, to translate our instinctive disapproval into prohibition? What is the moral value of disgust? (57”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hktk — — 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.
