Those who cherished dependent clauses and passive constructions can’t. Those who wrote reasonably straightforward sentences can be comfortably read aloud. Addicts soon learn that some writers are eminently podcastable and some aren’t. Many podcasts are devoted to out-of-copyright authors. On NPR’s Fresh Air, Terry Gross, the terrific host since 1975, interviews every country singer and blues shouter on this continent and still finds time to fill us in on drone aircraft, the failures of the banks and Tina Fey. The comedy inherent in their attitudes is at least as interesting as the facts they pass along. Once a week on Slate magazine’s political podcast, three sweetly innocent liberals try to convince each other that Barack Obama is, contrary to what many think, a great president they seem baffled and hurt when they have to acknowledge that not everyone shares their enthusiasm. I get the CBC’s Michael Enright on The Sunday Edition by podcast, and Eleanor Wachtel’s Writers and Company wouldn’t miss either of them. TVOntario’s Big Ideas corrals an astonishing collection of lecturers who try their best to explain such matters as quantum physics to me (and don’t think I’m not grateful). Via podcast, the BBC tells me every night what’s good and bad about the new plays in London and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation fills me in on which philosophers I should be reading and what they are trying to say.
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