[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 321

[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 gardening, washing dishes, preparing meals and many other day to day activities.

Podcasting has grown to the point 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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“Misusing the term ‘fascist', MLK’s Poor Peoples Campaign, Were ethnic communities manipulated in the Victorian ALP branch-stacking war?" 
THE RELIGION AND ETHICS REPORT - ABC RN
What are the broader issues raised for ethno-religious communities following the Victorian Labor Party controversy? And, why the label “fascist” for leaders like Trump and Orban is misguided, allowing elites that created the conditions for populism off the hook. Also, reviving one of the greatest legacies of Martin Luther King. A new poor people’s campaign aims to reach 140 million.  (29”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/june-17-2020/12363068


"Miraka Farm, Turning shiitake mushrooms into potent powder, Fermenting for Good, and the Regional Wrap.” 
COUNTRY LIFE - RNZ National
Graham Smith was told he was mad even contemplating growing paulownia trees on his northern King Country farm.  And that was just the challenge he needed.Graham's now milling timber from the thriving, but fussy trees and exports its super-light timber to Tahiti where it is crafted into waka ama paddles.  In New Zealand paulownia timber is used to make surfboards, snow and water skis, fishing lures and competition gun butts.  Graham and his wife Tess live in a beautiful valley 50 minutes drive south of Hamilton. Their dairy farm is tiny by today's standards with just 83 cows but that's exactly the way Graham wants it. 
The mushrooms grow in climate-controlled rooms on logs made from sawdust, wheat bran and water, Adachi says.  "We make three holes in a log, put spores in each hole and then the spores spread.”  Up to 20 mushrooms are harvested off each log and it takes four to five months for them to grow. The logs are used twice before being turned into compost.Natsu also makes a powder from dried mushrooms, which is rich in Vitamins D, B and dietary fibre. Dried shiitake mushrooms contain 10 to 30 times more nutritional value than fresh, she says.
Three and four-year-olds in the rural village of Clevedon have developed a taste for sauerkraut.  The kindergarten children have been making sauerkraut under the guidance of Kelli Walker who has set up a fermentary just out of the town.  Clevedon is about 35 minutes south-east of central Auckland.  Under Kelli's supervision, kids there squeeze out cabbage and watch the sauerkraut ferment and burble away before taking it home in jars to devour - much to the surprise of their parents.  Kelli uses foraged, edible plants and flowers and locally grown herbs to add a twist to age-old recipes. She also sources her vegetables from within 50 kilometres of home.  To give her own children the experience of a rural childhood, Kelli's family left their city life when a house became available on her family farm.  She started growing her own food and, when she produced too much, investigated what she could do with the excess. That's when her interest in wild fermentation began.  Five-litre jars on the kitchen bench have given way to commercial vats and now her Forage and Ferment sauerkraut, kimchi and kefir sodas are sold around New Zealand.
On the farm: What's going on around New Zealand. (51”)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018752400/country-life-for-26-june-2020

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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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