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.
__ __ “Bruce Shapiro on Trump's first year plus a Royal finance scandal” LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC Radio National Bruce Shapiro looks back at how US President Donald Trump has changed the world in one year, and how the world is responding to his plans for a "Board of Peace". Plus a former British MP investigates just how the British Royal family is making its money, and it's not all coming from taxpayers. (54”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/late-night-live-bruce-shapiro-norman-baker/106219678 “Donald Trump and the wrecking ball: The end of the world as we know it” REAR VISION - ABC Radio National Is the liberal international rules-based order – that has underpinned international relations for the past 80 years - about to collapse? The United States once its greatest champion is withdrawing funding from hundreds of international organisations, and at the same time unending the global economy by imposing of tariffs across the board. What might this mean for global security, and the global economy and can we blame Donald Trump and his wrecking ball or are there deeper forces at play? Guests: Ayse Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and author of "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders”; George Lawson, Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University; Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Law at Georgetown University and author of "The End of the America Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century”; Joseph Nye, Professor at Harvard at the Kennedy School of Government and author of "Is the American Century Over? and A Life in the American Century". (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/donald-trump-wrecking-ball-liberal-world-order/105884538 — — 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.
