[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 492

[John A. Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion.  While there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of great podcasts from other sources, the ones sponsored via public radio have been vetted through the worthy objectives of the medium. 

Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently.  I hope you might find these suggestions helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium.

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“Twenty Years of Change in China”
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT - BBC World Service
Pascale Harter introduces insights, analysis and experience from correspondents and reporters around the world. 
It's been twenty years since the BBC Beijing correspondent Stephen McDonnell first set foot in China to begin studying Mandarin. Back then, the city was still full of smokestack factories, old-fashioned neighbourhoods and noisy dive bars. Today, everything is far more developed - but have all the changes been positive? He reflects on the many ways in which Chinese life has been transformed - everywhere from academic institutions to long-distance trains. The bayous or wetlands of Louisiana are no strangers to climate disaster or environmental damage - but now they're eroding away at a frightening rate. Beth Timmins travels the waterways with a member of the Pointe-au-Cheine Native American group, to see the impact that storms, pollution and land loss are having on homesteads and ancestral sites.
And in Bolivia, the streams and lakes are alive with a different kind of concern - over a invasive species from the Peruvian Amazon which is gobbling up everything in its path. The paiche is a huge, voracious and wily fish, whose flesh and skin can be made into everything from croquettes to curtains - and for some communities, that makes it a valuable new resource. Jane Chambers goes on her own hunt for a river giant.  (23”)
https://www.bbc.co/uk/programmes/w3ct4nv0

“The Annual New Years Levee”
IDEAS - CBC Radio One
As the calendar page turns, it's time for the annual New Year's Levee. IDEAS' producers and contributors preview what they're working on for the opening months of 2024. Topics run the gamut, from salmon to cells, and from the domestic state of marriage, to the neglected verse of a tragic teen poet.  (54”)
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2295545411638


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Happy New Year!
A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published in most editions of the CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX).  For further information and membership information, go to www.cidx.ca

John Figliozzi
Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide”
NEW!!!!  11th EDITION available from mid-January from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.au, Ham Radio Outlet, W5YI.com.  A few copies of 10th Edition are still available. 




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