Turn Your Radio On

 I grew up in the radio era  -  no television in our home until I was about sixteen years old.


Of course it was old fashioned radio medium wave/a.m. (but  no f.m. -  that came later).  Long Wave too,  a wave length that could broadcast to just about the entire United Kingdom.  All the programmes emanated from the B.B.C.  (Auntie Beeb!) 

One old radio had short wave.  I rigged up an aerial/antenna and with great daring tunes into Radio Moscow.

It's little wonder that I am a radio person to this day.  My home and car radios are tuned to public radio.

NPR  (National Public Radio)  gets a bit "samey" Monday to Friday, with "news" on the hour every hour.  I say "news" because the hourly newscasts are little more than a regurgitation of the early morning news.

MY LOCAL public radio stations (Tampa or Naples) come into their own at the weekend. 

Here are some of my favourite weekend programmes - well worth the time.

https://www.splendidtable.org/   a great programme for food lovers with the marvelous Francis Lam (whose wonderful giggles make me smile. 

https://themoth.org/radio-hour  We all love stories, here are some of the best told by "ordinary folk"


https://loe.org/   "Living on Earth";  the essential programme for all who love the planet we inhabit.

   

https://hiddenbrain.org/    "The Hidden Brain"  challenging programmes about who we are (in tension with who we think we are!)


https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media 

 Taking/parsing/examining why what we hear or read "on the media" may not be the whole or true story.


https://revealnews.org/episodes/  Some of the best in investigative journalism.  


Click on any or all of the above links to see what you may be missing if you never "TURN YOUR RADIO ON"



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