[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 274

[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 “power walking” (most) every morning in what sometimes seems like a vain attempt to diminish the results of sitting behind a desk for 35 years.  The act of putting one foot in front of the other can be pretty monotonous and by “podding along” while plodding along the mind also gets something useful to do.  So it is with the time spent commuting to work day after day.

Podcasting has expanded almost exponentially so very quickly that it can justly be considered a medium all its own.  Therefore, the attempt here has to be to highlight only a small portion of it, just one corner where excellence reigns.

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 program’s 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. Here’s another in a continuing series of small samplings, offered in a 90 minute scope (more of less):

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“Monetizing Misery and the Future of Capitalism" 
BIG IDEAS - ABC RN
Enormous global corporations and financial institutions are now, some say, more powerful than governments. Rules that once constrained and regulated capitalism have gone. Is modern capitalism, itself, a threat to capitalism? Or will corporations always be able to monetise misery?  Paul Barclay speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, economist; co-founder of DiEM25; Greek politician, former Greek Finance Minister; author, and Antony Loewenstein, journalist and author.
Recorded on March 4, 2020 at Adelaide Writers Week  (55”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/catastrophe-corporations-and-the-future-of-capitalism/12058088

“The Digital Welfare State”
FUTURE TENSE - ABC RN
A growing number of human rights academics and activists are worried that our notions of welfare in the democratic west are changing – and not for the better.  They’re concerned that the tools of the digital era are being used to create a new form of welfare state directed against the poor and the disadvantaged, not in their interests.  Guests:  Professor Philip Alston – United Nations Special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights;  Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks – Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, The State University of New York, at Albany; Professor Ilan Katz – Director, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales  (30”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-digital-welfare-state/11994542

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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 Guide”
NEW! 184 page 9th EDITION available NOW from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com], Amazon [amazon.com], Ham Radio Outlet [hamradio.com]

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