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.
Podcasting has expanded almost exponentially so very quickly 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. 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): —— “Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in US politics” Rear Vision - ABC RN Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House of Representative, and the most powerful woman in the United States. For the past two years she has been the thorn in the side of the President Donald Trump. Now she is leading the push to impeachment him. So, who is Nancy Pelosi. (30”) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/nancy-pelosi/11659016 “High-profile Conservatives drop out of the leadership race" POWER AND POLITICS - CBC Radio One Conservative leadership hopeful Marilyn Gladu weighs in on the state of the leadership race after Jean Charest, Rona Ambrose and Pierre Poilievre announce they're not running. Plus, Angus Reid Institute's Shachi Kurl and CBC's Eric Grenier dig into the prevalence of social conservative beliefs in the Conservative party. (54”) https://21393.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_POWER_AND_POLITICS_P/media-session/3719d645-8fa4-422f-a162-b913ee3a3b3d/cbcpowerandpolitics-F5tAUOyQ-20200124.mp3 __ __ 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” NEW! 184 page 9th EDITION available NOW from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com], Amazon [amazon.com], Ham Radio Outlet [hamradio.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.
