[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 360

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.  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 can be 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. 

This continuing series of small samplings in more or less 90 minute helpings are curated by me.  I attest to the fact that I have listened to every podcast listed here.  So admittedly these are thoroughly subjective recommendations.  But my interests and tolerance for incompatible topics and views are pretty wide-ranging, even if I do say so myself. 

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“Biden's America; British slave trade; the philosophy of walking and listening”
EXTRA - ABC RN
- A preview of a United States Studies Centre publication coming out next week, forecasting what direction the US might take under a Biden Government, and what that might mean for Australia. We focus on trade, economics and international relations. Guests: Simon Jackman, CEO of the USSC; David Uren, non-residential fellow of the USSC, and former Economics Editor of The Australian.
- Britain was one the leaders of the slave trade, profiting from buying and selling slaves in multiple countries. When the British Government banned it in the 1830s, the owners, not the slaves, were compensated. Their descendants were beneficiaries of that trade - and the compensation - and some of them came to Australia, bringing their slave-owning beliefs to positions of influence.
Guest: Georgina Arnott, historian, postdoctoral research associate, Melbourne University, Author of 'Links in the Chain', the cover story in the August edition of the Australian Book Review.
- Norwegian philosopher and adventurer Erling Kagge, is the first person to have completed the Three Poles Challenge on foot, the North and South poles and the summit of Mount Everest. His 50 days walking to the South Pole was solo, even without radio contact. So Erling knows a few things about walking and about silence and the benefits of both. Erling is also a writer and publisher and his last two books are Silence in the Age of Noise and Walking: One Step at a Time. Both are published by Penguin. (55”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/extra/10th-august/12531028

“Nicholas Krystof on how America is failing people; Ben Macintyre's new spy; life in a Cornish fishing town”
EXTRA - ABC RN
- When Nicholas Kristof was growing up in the town of Yamhill, Oregon, his neighbours had their struggles, but they all shared a sense of optimism about the the future. Now a quarter of the kids he caiught the school bus with are dead - from bad personal choices, and from the failures of institutions meant to help them. It's a picture that's repeated across communities in the US. How, and when, did things go so badly wrong? Guest: Nicholas Kristof, author and columnist, New York Times; Book "Tightrope - Americans Reaching for Hope."  Published by Penguin Random House, December 2020
- A committed communist from the age of sixteen, Ursula Kuczynski carved out a career in espionage in China, Europe and Britain. Influential during World War Two and the Cold War, Agent Sonya, her codename, lived a long and full life as a lover, mother of three, a solider raising to the rank of Colonel in the Soviet army and the greatest female spy of the twentieth century as told byBen Macintyre.  Book: "Agent Sonya”. Publisher: Viking, part of Penguin Random House. Author: Ben Macintyre, Times columnist and associate editor and author of other books on espionage such as 'The Spy and the Traitor; Agent Zigzag, A Spy among Friends’.
- A 22-year-old Oxford educated woman from London went to a small fishing town in Cornwall to study it for a Masters degree in social anthropology. She embraced life in Newlyn - and the fishing industry it depends on. And she's now written an acclaimed account of her time there. Guest: Lamorna Ash, Author of 'Dark, Salt, Clear', published in the UK by Bloomsbury  (55”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/extra/28th-sept/12672656

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