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 commuting to work day after day.
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): —— “9 February 2019” PLAYBACK - RTE Radio 1 Sinéad Mooney & Ronan Kelly brings you the best from right across the RTÉ audio services. Morning Ireland, Liveline, Marian Finucane, Sean O'Rourke, Ray D'Arcy, Tubridy and the News at One - they're all there, along with choice cuts from Sports, Documentary on One, Arena and many many more. (42”) https://www.rte.ie/radio1/playback/programmes/2019/0209/1028540-playback-saturday-9-february-2019/ “8 February 2019” COUNTRY LIFE - RNZ National Making Headway with Hops. On the farm: What's happening on farms and orchards around NZ. Under FiveHundy: Turakina. Aria Sports Day: a time-honoured community event in the King Country (51”) https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/20190208 __ __ 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 Amazon [amazon.com] _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
