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.
__ __ “Winners” THIS AMERICAN LIFE - NPR and WBEZ Chicago We've done a lot of stories this year about people who were negatively affected, in one way or another, by big new policies rolled out by the Trump administration-- people who've been detained by ICE, or who lost government jobs, or had their funding cut, or been kicked out of the military, or found their Black student union can no longer be called a Black student union. But the story we're about to tell is about other people-- people who saw new Trump administration policies, who saw one of the hundreds of executive orders that the president has signed. And they thought to themselves, holy cow, that's great news for me, personally. They were targeted by some new policy and happy about it. (59”) https://www.thisamericanlife.org/872/winners “Productivity: How Can Business Work Smarter?” THE BOTTOM LINE - BBC Productivity drives prosperity, yet the UK continues to lag behind countries like the US, France and Germany. We work harder, yet produce less than our peers. In this episode, Evan Davis and guests discuss what productivity really looks like in practice – from offices and factories to call centres and operating theatres. And ask whether AI could be the boost Britain's economy needs. Guests: Katy Davies, Managing Director, Cap Air Systems; Louise Stead, Group Chief Executive, Royal Surrey and Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trusts; Sameer Vuyyuru, Chief AI and Product Officer, Capita. (34”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lfdk — — 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.
