Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion. I do it while taking my daily (more or less) 3 mile walk, while I’m “plodding along”.
While there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of great podcasts from other sources, the ones sponsored via public radio have been vetted through the worthy objectives of the medium. Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently. I hope you might find these suggestions — in roughly 90 minute bites -- helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium. __ __ “Live Aid and Limpets” SUNDAY MISCELLANY - RTE Radio 1 New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968. Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, and saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, with Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Eunan McKinney, Mae Leonard, Alexander McMaster, Angela Keogh, Mariam Tell and Vincent Woods. Podcast version sans copyrighted music - 36” https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22527518/ Full episode with music - 48” (available only by listening via the RTE web site) https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/2025/0713/1523273-sunday-miscellany-sunday-13-july-2025/ “The Silencing of Voice of America” REAR VISION - ABC Radio National The US funded international news network Voice of America started broadcasting into Germany in 1942. It now broadcasts in nearly 50 languages to more than 350 million people around the world. But in March this year, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order dismantling the US Agency for Global Media - the independent government body that oversees Voice of America. Now, Voice of America has been silenced for the first time in 83 years. Guests: Patsy Widakuswara is Voice of America's White House Bureau Chief and lead plaintiff in VOA's legal case against the Trump Administration. Dr Nick Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, Annenberg, and he specialises in the historic role of communication in foreign policy. Dr Kate Wright is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Edinburgh and co-author of 'Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America' by Kate Wright, Martin Scott & Mel Bunce. (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/rearvision/the-dismantling-of-voice-of-america/105281040 — — A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published every other month in the CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX). For further information and membership information, go to www.cidxclub.ca John Figliozzi Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide” 11th EDITION, with comprehensive listings of radio programs on AM, FM, shortwave, satellite radio, internet-wifi radio and podcasts, available from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.com.au _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list Swprograms@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swprograms-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
