[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 293

[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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“5th April 2020" 
SUNDAY MISCELLANY - RTE Radio One
Donkeys, mindfulness, penniless poets, wardrobe malfunctions...and finding serenity these anxious days. With Maurice Crowe, Barbara Scully, Chris McHallem, John F Deane, Mary Jane Boland, and Denise Blake, and music from Boris Hunka and Diane Daly, David Dundas, the Flying Lizards, Bach, Sean Ó Riada.  (36”)
https://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-miscellany/programmes/2020/0405/1128605-sunday-miscellany-sunday-5-april-2020/?clipid=103376477#103376477

“Christopher Ricks on why Bob Dylan is "the greatest living user of the English language"" 
WRITERS AND COMPANY - CBC Radio One 
On Oct. 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first singer-songwriter to receive the honour, and the announcement came as a surprise to many, but Dylan's lyrics have been celebrated by literary scholars for decades. In 2005, Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Christopher Ricks, a professor at Boston University and the author of Dylan's Vision of Sin. In the interview, Ricks explains why he regards Dylan as "the greatest living user of the English language," and compares him to such authors as Tennyson, Milton, Wordsworth, Eliot, and — as he puts it — "that Dylanesque writer, William Shakespeare.”  Christopher Ricks has written groundbreaking work on Milton, Keats, Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin. He was described by W.H. Auden as "the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." Ricks first wrote about Bob Dylan more than 40 years ago, in 1972. (53”)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/christopher-ricks-on-why-bob-dylan-is-the-greatest-living-user-of-the-english-language-1.3803292

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John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide”
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