[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 289

[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 or less):

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[Ed. Note:  If there’s a better program than REAR VISION that puts the present in such clear historical perspective, I’ve not come across it yet.  For that reason, given the current global crisis, you’re going to see (hear?) a few of these in succession.]

“The Black Death - the plague that never went away" 
REAR VISION - ABC RN  
Accurate figures for mortality rates for pandemics are often hard to come by.  Even with the corona virus, we won’t ever know how many people had it but were never tested.  There’s no argument, though, that the death rate for the plague tops the list. It wiped out around half the world’s population and the bacterium that causes it has never disappeared. Guests:  Emerita Professor Ann Carmichael, Department of History, Indiana University; Dr Sheila Barker,
Medici Archive Project; Emeritus Professor John Hatcher, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. (30”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/the-black-death---the-plague-thats-still-with-us-today/12059914

“1929 Revisited" 
REAR VISION - ABC RN  
After a month of almost unprecedented drama on global financial markets due to the spread of the Coronavirus, Rear Vision revisits the 1920s and the events that led to the stock market crash of 1929. (This program was first broadcast 27 April 2008.)  Guests:  Harold Bierman, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Business Administration at Cornell University; Richard Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of The History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics at Stern School of Business at New York University; Peter Spencer, Professor of Economics and Finance University of York. (30”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/1929-revisited/12067376

“SARS and MERS - what did the earlier epidemics teach us?" 
REAR VISION - ABC RN  
Before we had SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has brought us the disease known as Covid-19, we had SARS-CoV-1.  The disease it caused was SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.  The outbreak was largely limited to China and Hong Kong and it didn't last long, but there were lessons to be learned.  Guests:  Thomas Abraham, Author of "Twenty-first century plague: the story of SARS”; Professor Dale Fisher, Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Associate Professor Lotti Tajouri, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University. (30”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/sars-and-mars---what-did-the-earlier-epidemics-teach-us/12100888

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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”
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