Thing 19: Podcasts

Task

Option 1 – Listen to, subscribe, rate and review a podcast of your choice. This includes subscribing to the podcast through a podcast app (apple or android) rating and reviewing the podcast via the app and then writing a short review of the experience and the podcast on your Rudai23 blog.

A friend recommended a podcast called On Being with Krista Tippett, described on  https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/ as "The groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. Conversation about the big questions of meaning in 21st century lives and endeavours — spiritual inquiry, science, social innovation, and the arts. Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hosted by Krista Tippett."

I downloaded the podcast app to my iPhone in December 2016, and I have been listening to the weekly episodes regularly ever since. I rated the podcast 5* and I wrote a review on it on the iPhone app store. The review hasn't appeared yet, maybe it has to be passed by a moderator first. 

The experience of using the podcast app has been trouble-free, and easy to use. There is also a searchable website associated with the app and a blog.

The podcast itself is excellent and well worth the time spent listening to it. The host Krista Tippett holds a conversation with a different guest speaker or speakers every week. The episodes last approx. 1 hour or less. All the episodes are searchable on the website and app going back to when they started in 2001. The archive offers a great selection. They are always interesting, intelligent, thoughtful speakers and the conversations always make me think about new things, or think about things differently. They very often refer to books or poems or authors, and have often directed me to interesting reading. Because it is American based, it is a little American-centric, but her guests have also included Irish poets John O'Donohue, Michael Longley, and Padraig Ó Tuama, and an Austrian theologian Br. David Steindl-Rast, among many other international contributors.  I would recommend it to anyone interesting in thinking about our world and learning more about "spiritual inquiry, science, social innovation, and the arts". 

ENDS