[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 8

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Podcasts from international and public radio sources that I've found particularly interesting and edifying as I'm "plodding along" in my regular exercise regimen.  

In addition to via the websites referenced, these podcasts generally are made available through several other popular internet sources such as iTunes and TuneIn.

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IN OUR TIME - BBC Radio 4
Mrs. Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs Dalloway". First published in 1925, it charts a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a prosperous member of London society, as she prepares to throw a party. Writing in her diary during the writing of the book, Woolf explained what she had set out to do: 'I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity. I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work at its most intense.' Celebrated for its innovative narrative technique and distillation of many of the preoccupations of 1920s Britain, Mrs Dalloway is now seen as a landmark of twentieth-century fiction, and one of the finest products of literary modernism.  With: Professor Dame Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College, Oxford; Jane Goldman, Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow; Kathryn Simpson,  Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University. (43')
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048033q

MEDIA REPORT - ABC Radio National
"The Australian" Newspaper Turns 50
One of the most influential media outlets in Australia was launched by Rupert Murdoch 50 years ago this month. "The Australian" newspaper has changed its political stripes over the years but seems to have settled into it's current right of centre, campaigning stance. [My note:  Given Murdoch's influence in the UK and US, as well as his efforts to acquire Time Warner in the US, this program gives some insight on Murdoch, his history and motivations.] (28')
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/the-australian-newspaper-turns-50/5567148

LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC Radio National
The Koch Brothers/Obesity and the Powerful Food Industry
The Koch Brothers—with an estimated wealth of over 40 billion dollars each—have become more visible in recent years as the aloof forefathers of the Tea Party movement, and as intellectual figureheads of a vast array of think-tanks and PACs like Americans for Prosperity. But in his new book, Sons of Wichita, writer and journalist Daniel Schulman gives us a century-long portrait of a family legacy forged through far more than the accusations of bare self-interest can account for.  And... As we're constantly hearing in the media, weight levels in Western countries have soared within a single generation, and obesity is now classed as a disease. However, like the tobacco industry of old, the food industry is an enormously powerful and profitable entity. So is there anything we can do about it? In the series, The Men Who Made Us Fat, which aired recently on ABC television, journalist Jacques Peretti investigates why more people around the world are now overweight than under-nourished. (55')
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/sons-of-wichita/5569224
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/the-men-who-made-us-fat/5570148

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Thank you to those who've expressed appreciation for this effort and have suggested additional podcasts worthy of consideration.  With time, those will be reflected in these postings as I proceed  to sample them!  

John Figliozzi
The Worldwide Listening Guide - 6th edition now available
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