[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 217

[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 morning.  The act 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.  So it is with the time spent commuting to work day after day.

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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âThe man who influenced your entire breakfast this morningâ
UNDER THE INFLUENCE - CBC Radio One
Albert Lasker is the most interesting adman in the world. He had a hand in influencing professional baseball, Planned Parenthood, North American breakfast food and not one, but two presidential elections. And he just happened to change the world of advertising in the process.  (29â)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/the-man-who-influenced-your-entire-breakfast-this-morning-1.5019150

âWriting for the Ear to See"  
THIRD COAST INTERNATIONAL AUDIO CONFERENCE - WBEZ Chicago Public Radio
We make stories for the ear, but thereâs no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produceâ  No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this visual capacity of audio? How do we find those ways of describing a scene, an object, a person, in a way that brings our audience the full Technicolor experience. Focusing on script, this session looks at we might think about our visual language. In the crispest, most economical ways, how do we use narration to allow our audience to see what theyâre hearing? Sophie Townsend is a senior producer and editor at the ABCâs Radio National, and her feature-making work is internationally recognized.  (72â)
https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/feature/writing-for-the-ear-to-see

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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 available from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com] and Amazon [amazon.com]
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