[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 79

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, itâs back!  

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.   
I do it while âpower walkingâ (most) every other day (when itâs not cold and wet or I havenât succumbed to laziness).  The âartâ of putting one foot in front of the other can be pretty monotonous and by âpodding alongâ while plodding along the mind also gets something useful to do. Some of the best radio comes from the public networks of the UK, Australia, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.  Apart from the originating programâs web site, most programs are made available through any number of other amalgamation sources such as iTunes and TuneIn. Admittedly, these are thoroughly subjective recommendations, but my interests are pretty wide-ranging. Hereâs another in a continuing series of small samplings:

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âPlasmaâ
IN OUR TIME - BBC Radio 4
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, the fourth state of matter after solid, liquid and gas. As over ninety-nine percent of all observable matter in the Universe is plasma, planets like ours, with so little plasma and so much solid, liquid and gas, appear all the more remarkable. On the grand scale, plasma is what the Sun is made from and, when we look into the night sky, almost everything we can see with the naked eye is made of plasma. On the smallest scale, here on Earth, scientists make plasma to etch the microchips on which we rely for so much. Plasma is in the fluorescent light bulbs above our heads and, in laboratories around the world, it is the subject of tests to create, one day, an inexhaustible and clean source of energy from nuclear fusion. (46â)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07x6j4g

âHappy, Happy, Joy, Joyâ
TAPESTRY - CBC Radio One
Chade-Meng Tan, a former Google software engineer turned harbinger of happiness, offers up lessons from his book, Joy on Demand, about how to add little slices of joy into your day.
Dr. Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Zen priest, and the fourth director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the world's longest-running studies on human health and happiness. He reveals lessons about what leads to a good life.
Michael Dawson decided to quit complaining for 21 days straight. It took him six months to pull it off! Could you go 21 days without uttering a single complaint? (55â)
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/happy-happy-joy-joy-1.3804787

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Good listening!

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