So this week we’re going to showcase some really big ideas, give you something to binge on, and too something to dance around the loungeroom to. Hello, I’m Kellie Riordan and I head up the podcast crew at the ABC. Now we’re all of course, practicing social distancing and self isolating at the moment, which means we can feel a little undid. But we want to come together still and feel been incorporated into impressions and other humans in our neighborhood in our country and of course, globally. Listening to a podcast is one of the ways that you can achieve this at the moment, right from your very own home. So over the next few weeks, we’re going to give you gratuities on astounding podcasts to be heard whether it’s looking for credible report at the moment, whether you just wanted to really escape and listen to something completely different that takes you to another world. Whether you’re looking for a show to entertain your babies if they’re at home. We’ll position is linked to all of these substantiates in the description and of course, you can get them wherever you find your podcasts. Okay, so my first podcast today is called the TED Radio Hour. You may have heard of Ted, it’s a world-wide phenomenon with powwows throughout the world. And you might have watched some of their videos on YouTube. But there’s also a TED Radio Hour podcast hosted by Manoush Zomorodi, and what they do is they tap into the best and brightest thinkers throughout the world, grab the audio from those talks, but then dip even deeper by interviewing some of those specialists. So it might be Brene Brown, the social researcher who talks about how we should all feel more vulnerable. And then they interview her about her ideas and unpack them so far. Or it might be an expert on robotics and neural networks. It might be an economist who has some really wide-ranging minds about capitalism. And via this podcast, you’re allowed to kind of get into the minds of some of the brightest and best and boldest intellectuals in the world. So if you’re looking for a podcast that impels you think that taps you into different ideas that allows you to unpack some actually complex issues, athe TED Radio Hour is perfect for that. So next on our podcast menu, a highly bingable series, this is one you’re going to consume in quick succession. It’s called the Eleventh.And we might all is a well-known fact that iconic minute where the Prime Minister Gough Whitlam stood on the steps of Parliament and started his now infamous speech. Well, may we say, but how much do “youve been” know about the rejection? What went on who was behind it, why it happened, what was going on in politics at the time? So this squad, led by Alex Mann, the host has gone back into the archives. We’ve looked at all the material and the interviews that existed at the time, but we’ve also gone back to the key players who were around in the 1970 s, to ask them to help us piece together, what actually happened.There’s a bit of intrigue in this as well. What did the CIA know about the ouster? What did Buckingham Palace know or not know at the time? So this is a highly bingeable serial seven occurrences, once you start, you will not be able to stop. And it’s a really great one, even if you’re not into politics, because there’s so much drama, there are amazing colorful courages, the scheme precisely jumps along and you’ll be stolen. Alright, my third picking Song Exploder. Now this podcast is not just for music nuts, it’s for anyone who time wants to get inside the artistic process.You’re listening to song adventurer where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were reached. What happens in the show is a musician or a ensemble deconstructs one of their sungs. They let you in on how they chose the particular symbol that they used or the baseline, why they chose to lay the guitar moves in a certain way. So you really get inside the mind of the songwriter. The interesting thing I love about this show is it doesn’t look at the big self-evident field anthems of an master. Instead, the musicians opt a song that’s lesser than known, but that has a great story behind it. So an example of this is in an episode with Bono from U2, where he talks about the song Cedarwood Road.Now Cedarwood Road is the place where he grew up in Dublin and it just takes you inside his attention of what it was like growing up at that time and you really unpack the lyrics of the song in a new way. The other thing I love about this demo Hrishikesh Hirway the host is almost absent. He really holds over to the songwriter and allows you to, I guess, lift the curtain on the imaginative process. This is a great one to listen to no matter where you are in the car in the bathtub while you’re cooking dinner.Song exploder is fantastic. You’re going to adore it. I hope those podcasts help you feel a little more connected while we’re all practise social distancing. And you can subscribe to ABC Australia for more narrations of people and region right across our country ..
