[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 322

[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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“Economic Inequality” 
REAR VISION - ABC RN
Rising income and wealth inequality is an issue across the globe. Jeremy Corbin the Labour leader in the UK talks about it, as does Bernie Sanders the former Democratic Presidential nominee and now it’s the mantra for Bill Shorten. But are they right – is economic inequality increasing and is it any worse today than it has been in the past?  (30”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/eonomic-inequality/9435276

"Quarantine coverage prompts 'calm down' call from critics; cut-through for the climate in the times of Covid-19; 'Influence'- the inside story of a global PR firm destroying its own reputation"
MEDIAWATCH - RNZ National
More details emerged over isolation and quarantine failures at the border this week, raising urgent questions about the risk of further transmission of COViD-19. But the media also raised the level of alarm prompting some experts and commentators to tell the media to calm down.
Stuff published the first edition of its climate change initiative The Forever Project in late March - the very day we went into lockdown. Understandably, it didn't make much impact but this week it’s back with a supplement in the papers pushing the message that post-Covid recovery must have climate and sustainability at its heart. Mediawatch asks the editor if it's an uphill battle they can't win when the imperative to fire up the economy as quick as possible is so great.
The documentary film Influence lifts the lid on how a global PR company destroyed itself when its unethical conduct in South Africa was exposed by journalists. Mediawatch asks the film’s makers what we should learn about modern political communications from the scandal.  (40”)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018752580/mediawatch-for-28-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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