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.
__ __ “The Growing Power and Influence of White Supremacy” FRESH AIR - NPR and WHYY Philadelphia - Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif. - Last year, while accepting a Screen Actors Guild award for A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet told the audience, "I want to be one of the greats; I'm inspired by the greats." Many criticized him for his immodesty, but I found it refreshing: After all, Chalamet has never made a secret of his ambition in his interviews or his choice of material. In his best performances, you can see both the character and the actor pushing themselves to greatness, the way Chalamet did playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, which earned him the second of two Oscar nominations. He's widely expected to receive a third for his performance in Josh Safdie's thrilling new movie, Marty Supreme, in which Chalamet pushes himself even harder still. (44”) https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/g-s1-104900/fresh-air-for-jan-7-2026-american-reich-details-a-national-surge-in-bigotry?showDate=2026-01-07 “Time, Paris, Bees and Dictators THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH - BBC Radio 4 David Mitchell invites Frankie Boyle, Miles Jupp, Michelle Wolf and Celya AB to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as time, Paris, bees and dictators. (28”) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pf5g — — 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 PLEASE NOTE: Times change and some things just get passed by. Such is the case with THE WORLDWIDE LISTENING GUIDE. This 11th Edition will be its last. Once the current crop of issues is sold, the series is sold out for good. For 35 years, starting with THE SHORTWAVE RADIOGUIDE, it has been my pleasure to provide to select listeners a written record of some of the best programming available on public media radio everywhere. The media landscape is changing — much for the good, but some that’s concerning. This is especially true for the jewel that is public service media. But it’s also clear that radio — all its platforms — is de-emphasizing schedules and embracing the freeing capacity of podcasting. It’s also clear that — happily — there are some fine accessible and more timely resources for finding that piublic audio content available online. So for the next few weeks I will be compiling some of the best of those to share with you and provide places where you can still gain the information that the WWLG has tried to provide for these many years. On to the future! Happy Holidays! _______________________________________________ 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.
