[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 172

[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.  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 and tolerance for incompatible views are pretty wide-ranging. Hereâs another in a continuing series of small samplings, offered in a 90 minute scope (more of less):

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âTrainspottingâ
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT - BBC Radio 4
-  Kim Jong Un's train rolls into to Beijing as the North Korean leader meets President Xi. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world.  China correspondents were once known as tealeaf readers, now they've become motorcade analysts and trainspotters says Stephen McDonell, as he tries to unpick the meaning of Kim Jong Un's surprise visit to Beijing. 
-  Jonah Fisher has the story of Nadiya Savchenko and her journey from prison to national hero and back to prison again.
-  Bethany Bell explores why Austria won't be implementing a smoking ban any time soon and finds out what the coffee drinkers of Vienna think of that.
-  Mike Wendling joins the pro-gun control crowds at the 'March For Our Lives' in Washington DC and reflects on how things have changed since he was a teenager in the US when he and his classmates would shoot at paper targets in their school's basement. 
-  And in Morocco, Kieran Cooke learns what impact Chinese tourists are having on Fes and comes face to face with the head of a dead camel.  (30â)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wpn7x

âDisrupting the Disruptorsâ
FUTURE TENSE - ABC RN
Disruption has been reinvented as a positive force. To disrupt is to overturn the old and create new systems and ways of thinking. Itâs a strategy for moving forward.  The theory of Disruptive Innovation was originally put forward in 1997 by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. But does our contemporary use of the term still reflect his original intent? And when does the embrace of disruption become a problem rather than a solution? (29â)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/disrupting-the-disruptors/9485138

âBill Richardsonâ
HARDTALK - BBC World Service
HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Bill Richardson, former Clinton cabinet secretary and one time US North Korea emissary. The next couple of months will present President Donald Trump with foreign policychoices that could define his presidency. A summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is looming, so too a decision on whether to dump the nuclear deal with Iran. And never far from the surface, how to handle relations with Vladimir Putin's Russia. What is Trump's brand of disruption doing to US foreign policy? (30â)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct2kpr

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A monthly (well, mostly monthly) compendium of these newsletters, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is now published in The CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX).  For further information, go to www.cidx.ca

John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guideâ
192 page 8th edition now available from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com] and Amazon [amazon.com]

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