[Swprograms] Podding Along - Issue 364

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 when weather permits.  Hence…Podding Along!

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 sources. 

This continuing series of small samplings in more or less 90 minute helpings are curated by me.  I attest to the fact that I have listened to every podcast listed here.  So admittedly these are thoroughly subjective recommendations.  But my interests and tolerance for incompatible topics and views are pretty wide-ranging, even if I do say so myself. 

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"Joe Biden on F.D.R., and Rick Perlstein on Donald Trump”
NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR - WNYC New York Public Radio and NPR
Joe Biden has been playing it safe during the coronavirus pandemic, but Evan Osnos got the chance to sit down with the nominee in person. In a wide-ranging conversation, Biden compares his position—should he win—to that of Franklin Roosevelt: taking office during a disaster, he argues, he would have an opportunity to effect a hugely ambitious agenda, but one driven by pragmatism rather than ideology. Rick Perlstein, the author of a four-volume history of modern conservatism, addresses the question of whether Donald Trump is an aberration or a continuation. And our fashion correspondent walks David Remnick through hot trends in this season’s must-have accessory, the face mask.  (51”)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/episodes/will-be-joe-bidens-fdr-moment

“'Bette Midler on 'Coastal Elites'’”
NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR - WNYC New York Public Radio and NPR
The new film “Coastal Elites” is a series of monologues written by Paul Rudnick, one of which features Bette Midler as a retired New York schoolteacher who’s educated, funny, possibly insane, and in police custody for snatching a MAGA hat off a man in a coffee shop. That’s not much of a stretch for Midler. Plus, Jill Lepore describes how a pandemic ends, and N. K. Jemisin talks about how the virulent racism of H. P. Lovecraft, a pioneer of horror writing, shaped his influential fiction.  (50”)
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/episodes/bette-midler-coastal-elites

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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”
Current 184 page 9th EDITION available from Universal Radio [universal-radio.com], Amazon [amazon.com], Ham Radio Outlet [hamradio.com]
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