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. __ __ “What role should emotion play in the fraught politics of immigration?” THE MINEFIELD - ABC Radio National The politics of immigration has returned in recent months — and returned with a depth of feeling that suggests it never truly went away. It’s always there, lingering just beneath the surface of Western societies, waiting to be tapped into by politicians skilful (or brazen) enough to harness its power. Conservative political parties across Western democracies have “won” the debate over “border control”. It has been the clear intention of centre-left parties to neutralise the politics of “irregular arrivals”. What’s left, then, is the debate over multiculturalism and levels of immigration. And yet this is dangerous political terrain. For however much researchers point to the economic benefits of immigration, or the lack of clear connection between international student numbers and rising house prices, or the historic success of Australia’s bipartisan commitment to multiculturalism, “fact-checking” cannot touch the underlying emotions to which anti-immigration rhetoric appeals. Moreover, one of the reasons anti-immigration rhetoric is so successful is the fact it is at once parasitic and opportunistic. As social researcher Rebecca Huntley recently put it, “Whatever the top anxiety people have at any one time, they will graft an anxiety about immigration on it.” Given the affective dimension of both social cohesion and anti-immigration rhetoric, is there a way of appealing to political emotions as a way of addressing these anxieties without giving way to their more insidious expressions? Guest: Sukhmani Khorana is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales. Her most recent book is Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect for Agency. (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theminefield/emotion-and-the-divisive-politics-of-immigration/105811242 “Northern Ireland 1998 - what can we learn?” REAR VISION - ABC Radio National As all eyes look to the Middle East this week, hoping the seemingly intractable conflict between Israel and Hamas can be resolved, Rear Vision looks back to Northern Ireland. In 1998 The Good Friday Agreement was signed by groups in Britain and Ireland, bringing an end to 30 years of violence, murder and religious conflict. How did this come about? and are there lessons we can learn? Guests: Professor Feargal Cochrane, from Dept Politics and international studies at the University of Warwick; Jon Tonge, Professor of British and Irish Politics at the University of Liverpool; Historians Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards and Professor Marianne Elliott; Former US diplomat and strategist, George Mitchell. (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/norther-ireland-1998-what-can-we-learn/105839636 — — 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.
