My personal interests from a podcasting perspective come from what I’ve termed in my book “The Worldwide Listening Guide” as ‘The Big Six’ of international public service-oriented radio: the BBC, the ABC (Australia), the CBC, RTE, RNZ and public radio in the U.S. This is from where the majority of the recommendations in Podding Along originate. Good listening!
“Geraldine Brooks: Fact, Fiction and the Historical Novel BIG IDEAS - ABC Radio National Acclaimed Australian author Geraldine Brooks draws on her some of her much loved historical novels—"The People of the Book", "Caleb’s Crossing", “March" and her latest "The Secret Chord" and discusses how she approaches and incorporates facts, fiction, imagination and a good story line into her books. From the Interrobang Festival of Questions in Melbourne in November 2015, Ms. Brooks and ABC journalist Mark Colvin discuss the topic: "Truth is Stranger than Fiction - Can Fiction be Stronger than Truth?” (48”) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/geraldine-brooks/7153312 “’The Independent’ Moves Online, Editor in Chief of ’The Huffington Post UK’, Genre-led Divisions at the BBC?” THE MEDIA SHOW - BBC Radio 4 After thirty years, the Independent and the Independent on Sunday are to end their print editions next month - although they'll continue online. In addition, sister paper i has been sold to Johnston Press for £24 million. The Independent was selling more than 400,000 copies a day at its peak in the late 1980s, but its current paid circulation is around 56,000. Steve Hewlett talks to two key decision makers involved in the change; Amol Rajan, Editor of The Independent and Steve Auckland, Group CEO of ESI Media, which owns all three titles. We also hear from the Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post UK. The British incarnation of the online platform founded in the US in 2005 is now just one of legion 'digital native' content organisations, credited with playing a part in the demise of news in print. Today, Huffington Post UK will be guest edited by the Duchess of Cambridge. To discuss how this and other innovations might also raise the profile of the Huffington Post UK, Steve Hewlett is joined by Editor in Chief Stephen Hull. BBC 3 (TV-ed.) has this week become an online-only platform. It follows reports that BBC 3 might merge with Radio 1 to form a new 'BBC Youth' brand, and that the BBC Director General Tony Hall may soon announce plans for a corporation-wide restructuring into genre-led divisions, such as BBC Inform & BBC Entertain, rather than channels. Steve is joined by Lorraine Heggessey, former Controller of BBC 1 and Tim Suter, media consultant & founding partner in Ofcom, to discuss the pros and cons of reshaping BBC content in this way. (30”) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070fft7 John Figliozzi The Worldwide Listening Guide New 7th edition now available from Universal Radio, Amazon and W5YI.com _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
