[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 34

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most radio listening takes place in the car or while doing other things that allow freedom for the ear, but not the eyes and hands.  Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion.   
Apart from the originating programâs web site, most programs are made available through any number of other amalgamation sources such as iTunes and TuneIn.  Some of the best radio comes from the public networks of the UK, Australia, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.  Here are a few suggestions from that trove you might find of interest.

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âLiving at the Edge:  Life in Extreme Environmentsâ
THE FORUM - BBC World Service
Bridget Kendall explores extreme living and what it tells us, from human exploration to deep sea fish and synthetic biology. Bridget and her guests explore hot dry deserts and sub-zero polar ice, deep sea vents, salt heavy lakes, acid hot springs and outer space. NASA scientist Lynn Rothschild is a pioneer in the field of astrobiology, interested in probing the limits of life on earth, to better understand where we might find life signs elsewhere in the universe. Oliver Crimmen is the Fish Curator at the Natural History Museum in London. Heâs an expert on how some sea creatures can survive both freezing and hot water â and several miles beneath the surface of our oceans. And explorer Rosie Stancer takes her own body to the edge â with solo trips to both the South Pole and the Arctic North, and a new expedition planned across Chinaâs largest desert.  (41")
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03p85k1

âBest of the Week - May 6, 2016â 
BEST OF THE WEEK - RNZ National
Highlights from RNZ National's programmes for the week ending Friday 6 May. This week.....Scholar, activist and political theorist Noam Chomsky talks about politics, society and the death of the American dream, can the experimental new funding model social bonds help New Zealand's most vulnerable? Mixed messages and home truths in the media on soaring house prices, the global effects of the world's increasing population, the French doctor instrumental in founding Doctors without Borders who's also a successful novelist, mechanical doping - professional cycling's latest way of cheating, the genetic impacts of crop domestication, marine archaeologists find the wreck of the Endeavour, the politics and music of Unity Pacific's Tigilau Ness. (87â)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/bestoftheweek/audio/201799777/best-of-the-week-6-may-2016

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CAPSULE REVIEW
BEST OF THE WEEK - RNZ National
This is an âeditorâs choiceâ compilation of the previous weekâs programming on RNZ National available only via a webcast or podcast.  There is a handy aspect to this offering, inasmuch as it provides curated segments from a range of the networkâs programs compressing it all into an interesting, eclectic and digestible hour and a half.  If you donât mind someone else choosing your listening for you, Best of the Week is an excellent way to receive some highlights from a very good, high quality broadcaster.

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Good listening!

John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide"
New 7th edition now available from Universal Radio, Amazon and W5YI.com

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