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.
__ __ “Imagining the Future — Sci-fi, Doomsday Preppers and Hope Punks” SOUL SEARCH - ABC Radio National The way we imagine the future matters. Not only does it change how we feel, those feelings change how we live today — and that might just change how things actually turn out! Guests: Dr Declan Humphreys is a researcher in philosophy and applied ethics, specialising in AI ethics and cybersecurity. He teaches at the School of Science, Technology and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and was part of the Top 5 Humanities media residency program in 2025. Dr Jordan McKenzie is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wollongong, and takes a particular interest in the emotions of utopias and dystopias. He is the author of "DYSTOPIAN EMOTIONS: Emotional Landscapes and Dark Futures". Dr Victoria Lorrimar is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Freemantle. Her latest book is called "Science Fiction and Christian Theology". (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/soul-search/imagining-the-future-sci-fi-doomsday-preppers-and-hope-punks/105872094? “Global film-makers at the London Film Festival” THE ARTS HOUR - BBC World Service Nikki Bedi talks to international film-makers taking part in this year's London Film Festival. - American writer-director Kelly Reichardt takes us back to the 1970s with her heist film The Mastermind starring Josh O' Connor. - French Moroccan film-maker Robin Campillo shares how he continued the work of his late friend and collaborator Laurent Cantet with coming-of-age drama Enzo. - Oscar-winning documentary-maker Laura Poitras talks about her latest film Cover-Up, which looks at the work of the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersch. - And another Oscar winner, Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes discusses his film Orphan about a young boy in 1950s Hungary. (50”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6ztx — — 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.
