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 other day (when it’s not cold and wet or I haven’t succumbed to laziness). The “art” 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.
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: ----- “Fraud and Scandal in the US Navy; China’s Crony Communism; Remembering Robert Silvers” LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC Radio National The so-called Fat Leonard scandal is the US Navy's worst corruption scandal and recently allegations of corruption have spread to the Australian Navy. How the post-Tiananmen Square climate ushered in an era of large scale looting of China's public assets by officials, family members and their cronies in the private sector. The long and incredible career of New York Review of Books editor, Robert Silvers. (54”) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/past-programs/?page=3 (scroll to 22 March 2017) “Nicholas Coleridge; BBC Brexit coverage; Osborne, Lebedev and the Evening Standard” THE MEDIA SHOW - BBC Radio 4 - Nicholas Coleridge has been Managing Director of Conde Nast UK and President of Conde Nast International for the last 25 years. They publish well over a hundred titles from Vogue to Vanity Fair, Tatler to Wired. Andrea asks him about his journalism, the resilience of glossy magazines and picking the right editor. - More than 70 MPs have written to the BBC with concerns about "pre-referendum pessimism" and an unwillingness to "accept new facts". Tony Hall says that impartiality has always been the cornerstone of BBC News and that "it is more important than ever that the BBCs journalism is independent of political influence". Former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale didn't sign the letter, but thinks there are problems and joins us to discuss them. - And, George Osborne is the new editor of the Evening Standard, the London newspaper with a greater circulation than many national dailies. But what of the man who appointed him, Evgeny Lebedev? To discuss his decision and rationale behind it are Dominic Ponsford of the Press Gazette and John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters institute for the study of Journalism and former Moscow Bureau chief for the Financial Times. (29”) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08j99ft __ __ A 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 Good listening! John Figliozzi Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide" 7th edition available from Universal Radio, Amazon, W5YI.com and Ham Radio Outlet _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list Internetradio@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to internetradio-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
