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.
__ __ “Dropkick Murphys are a proud pro-union, anti-authoritarian band — and they don’t care if that loses them fans” Q - CBC Radio One For nearly 30 years, the Boston-based Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys have been the loud, proud voice of the working class. Their newly released 13th studio album, For the People, is a fitting title not just for their music, but for the band’s entire ethos. Since day one, frontman Ken Casey has spoken out in support of a variety of causes, from workers’ rights to, more recently, providing humanitarian aid on the ground in Ukraine. But these days, no one is immune to the polarizing divides running through America, including Dropkick Murphys. So what happens when a left-leaning, union-supporting Boston punk band looks out into the crowd and sees two of their fans wearing MAGA hats in the front row? Casey decided to call it out. (35”) https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/dropkick-murphys-are-a-proud-pro-union-anti-authoritarian-band-and-they-dont-care-if-that-loses-them-fans-9.6932159 “Are we turning the housing crisis into a living crisis?” FUTURE TENSE - ABC Radio National We build more and more homes for growing urban populations. But doing so without providing much needed amenities doesn't serve our suburbs and the people who live in them. It risks confounding social isolation and urban sprawl. There's also climate change to consider. In a heating world, how do we plan our suburbs to deal with higher temperatures? Are the cities and suburbs of the future going to be livable for our children and our children's children? Guests: Andrew Crowe — Demographer for Australian Bureau of Statistics; Dr Annette Kroen — Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University; Professor Sebastian Pfautsch — Professor of Urban Planning and Management at Western Sydney University and co-lead in People-centred Sustainable Precinct Design at the Urban Transformations Research Centre; Dylan Reid — Urbanist, editor, writer and co-founder of Spacing Magazine. (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/futuretense/are-we-turning-the-housing-crisis-into-a-living-crisis-/105825416 “The Brain and Consciousness” IN OUR TIME - BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how our increased knowledge of the functioning of the brain and the mechanisms of memory in the 20th century has changed our feelings about our own natures, and our approach to the behaviour and treatment of others. Many questions have been thrown up this century by our growing knowledge about how the brain and the mind function. How easy is it to establish the relationship between the two, and what light can this relationship throw on our understanding of our own and others natures? With Steven Rose, Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group, Open University, Dan Robinson, Distinguished Research Professor, Georgetown University and visiting lecturer in Philosophy and Senior Member of Linacre College, Oxford University. (30”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054582 — — 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.
