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Hi John:
Though I’m not looking to make the Podding Along honor roll, I thought you
might find my latest documentary for the BBC WS of interest. It was a BBC Radio
Four Pick of the Week, and got a review in the UK Spectator mag. (And it’s not
about radio! Fancy that.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qmw07
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Best,
dg
> On Nov 22, 2018, at 10:47 AM, John A. Figliozzi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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, offered in a 90 minute scope (more
> of less):
>
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>
> “White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity”
> THINKING ALLOWED - BBC Radio 4
> Racial ambiguity in America: Lisa Kingstone, Senior Teaching Fellow in Race
> and Identity at Kings College, London, asks what happens to a country that
> was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to
> fade. She’s joined by the writer, Bidisha. Also, what is meant by white
> privilege? Kalwant Bhopal, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of
> Birmingham, discusses her new study. (27”)
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000ykk
>
> “Shoes - A Cultural History”
> THINKING ALLOWED - BBC Radio 4
> Shoes: Laurie Taylor explores their cultural history and sociological
> meanings. He's joined by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator of the Bata
> Shoe Museum in Toronto, Tim Edwards, Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the
> University of Leicester and Naomi Braithwaite, Senior Lecturer in the School
> of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University. (28”)
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00010yy
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> CAPSULE REVIEW
> THINKING ALLOWED - BBC Radio 4
> This program perhaps can best be perceived through a prism of “quirky”
> intellectualism. The topics on many occasions (“Shoes", for instance, above)
> may seem to be facially unimportant or easily overlooked, but once delved
> into with serious inquiry it becomes apparent that everything in our world
> has some heft to it. That which we take for granted today wasn’t always so.
> Laurie Taylor serves as our friendly guide, asking the questions we would
> ask, making for an interesting and informative journey into things we
> probably never would have given second thought to, but are glad in the end
> that it was brought up. Whether the topic is of obvious or hidden import,
> the program is accessible across the board and always adds to improved
> knowledge of the world in which we live. The program’s web page description
> says, “New research on how society works”. Indeed. Highly recommended
> listening.
> [Streamed and broadcast at 1600UT Wed., repeated Mon. 0015UT and available by
> podcast.]
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05
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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”
> 192 page 8th edition available from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com] and
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