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我听的podcast 不多，开始乱七八糟订了不少，后来又减下去了。
基本听的就是两个五分钟左右早间新闻 New York Times Front Page，NPR 7 AM ET News Summary 。有时也听 Wall Street Journal This Morning 35 分钟，比较长，偏财经新闻，新闻质量不是最高。tech news briefing 还可以，如果你象我一样骨子里还是个nerd.

剩下就都是NPR 的节目了。Fresh Air 是文艺杂志性的，Terry Gross 是个很好的主持人，挑选的采访对象有头脑，问的问题也到点儿，谈话都很有意思。有时是我知道的人，但没想到他们可以这么有意思。比如昨天是给BART Simpson 配音的演员，从没想过，一个好的配音演员背后那么有修养。听她的节目经常愉快的感觉，啊，世界上还有这么好书没读，好音乐没听，好艺术家不知道。顿时心里就踏实了－－好像一直再生活下去也有事情做，不会无聊。今天上节目的是pegi young, neil young 的老婆。我本来连neil young 都没怎么听过，当然不会对pegi young感兴趣。terry 放了一段她的新CD 的歌 Fake，pegi 说这歌是描写婚姻生活中两人生活完全融为一体后，深夜有时会出现的一刻自我怀疑自我否定的情绪。这种情绪我当然完全没法联系，但是她娓娓道来，非常诚挚，我也觉的一定程度能理解。然后她谈起儿子。她儿子是脑瘫，没有行动和语言能力，所以她花了很多时间寻找教育的办法，发现当时的教育方式都不够有效，终于自己开了一所残障孩童学校。经过艰苦的努力，她儿子虽然不能说话，但可以通过眼神和仪器交流，上完了普通高中，现在成功的开了一个小绿色养鸡场，养着一百五十只鸡，供应鸡蛋，自食其力。照顾这样一个儿子直他可独立生活，压力可想而知，她又是摇滚明星的妻子，真令人惊奇他们的家庭生活这样正常，关系这样紧密。诚然他们有财力物力，但是有多少人能这样把充裕的物质处理的这么好这么正面？


Talk of The Nation 是时政性质，谈问题比较深入，周五的科技专题很好。前几天有个华盛顿时报的记者讲他做了一年的切尼专题，切尼在很多事情上影响非常大，但是他故意居于幕后，尽量通过别人来提出法案提议，以至很多通过的提案政策公众根本不知道是他首倡。这个记者抽丝剥茧讲了好几个例子。我听的很惊讶。

还有NPR movies ，一周一次，有对所有新电影的简评，也有深入的访问，我常靠这个决定那个电影值得看。New York Times Arts Moview A.O.Scott's review 本来也不错，现在改了 video podcast ，我就不爱看了。一是不能在ipod 上听不方便，二是，我实在讨厌他的长相。有些人就该呆在幕后。

New Yorker 的podcast 不多，fiction 不错，是作家读些短篇小说，加上评论。可惜一月才一次。

我以前走路上班的时候podcast听得比较多。我挺喜欢的是jack welch和他的新太太（也有好些年了吗）的business week的访谈节目，觉得比较有personal touch。NPR的fresh air我也听。还有比较bt的一挡是LSAT everyday law logics，却居然也是我的最爱之一

I don't have podcast, but one of my favorite NPR programs is Marketplace.

我推荐一个很好玩的时事测验节目Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Market place, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Fresh air

Here is my other favorites,

This American Life
NPR: Technology
NPR: Food
NPR: Health & Science
NPR: This I believe

This American Life我也常听。
不过那个主持人Ira Glass有点口齿不清（nl不分好象），听得我抓狂。
有一集特别好玩的，我推荐：In the Shadow of the City （http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1174）

你们推荐也介绍个大概啊。。。
今天听了一会wait wait don't tell me，笑晕了。
NPR market place 没有podcast 么。

Knowing wrote:啊，世界上还有这么好书没读，好音乐没听，好艺术家不知道。顿时心里就踏实了－－好像一直再生活下去也有事情做，不会无聊。

我也经常有这种感觉

这些原来我开车的时候常听。做沉思我过往生活状。从前不敢说，怕被人一眼认出一副中产枯燥相，不过也许不用这个我也能一眼被人认出来。

小K，wait wait don't tell me好玩吧？ 我每周一迫不及待地下载前个周末的一集，舍不得一次听完。最有趣的是每个环节之后的一小段音乐，他们总是能找到特别切题的配上，I 服了U ！

我今年由于条件所限，不怎么看电视了，新闻时事基本靠一本TIME和听广播。上周末看了一会儿电视，忽然觉得受不了，眼花缭乱的，那么多广告，还是听收音机心情舒畅。

Marketplace is produced by American Public Media, which apparently is separate from NPR. Therefore it's not on NPR's Web site. You can find it here:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me often has some political or social celebrities on their program. The week when they had the prosecutor Fitzgerald (Scooter Libby case) on was hilarious.

周末刚巧借了去年的记录片 Neil Young: heart of gold， 主要拍摄了他在05年做脑血管瘤手术之前的现场演唱会。他的乐队成员都是合作了差不多30年的老朋友，Pegi也在场伴唱。在每首歌之前，Neil Young都会很悠然地说上几句话，介绍一下创作背景，提到帮他照看牧场的老人，刚去世的父亲，。。。 总之整个气氛非常温馨感人。强烈推荐。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young

On March 31, 2005, Young was admitted to a hospital in New York for treatment for a brain aneurysm. He was treated successfully by a minimally invasive neuroradiological procedure. Prior to undergoing the procedure, he wrote the first eight songs of a new album, Prairie Wind, in Nashville, with session musicians that included regular Young sideman Ben Keith on lap and pedal steel guitars. The last two songs on the album were written after his aneurysm procedure. Many of the songs, such as "Fallin' Off the Face of the Earth," seem to be inspired by Young's brush with mortality, the recent death of his father (who suffered senile dementia), as well as a connection with his Manitoba roots.

my list:

60 Minutes Podcast
ABC News Nightline
Amateur Traveler Podcast
The Best of National Geographic Magazine
Discovery Channel Features
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition Podcast
NPR: Books
NPR: Driveway Moments
NPR: Movies
NPR: Story of the Day
NPR: Storycorps
NPR: This I Believe
NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Real Time with Bill Maher
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Smithsonian American Art Museum Podcast
Travel Channel Features
YOGAmazing - Yoga Lifestyle Video Podcast

------------------ I didn't realize I have such a long list

上面这几个电视节目的，是听的还是看的？

silkworm wrote:上面这几个电视节目的，是听的还是看的？

都是听的，只有yoga的那个是看的。

我喜欢听APM的the story
还有between the lines
有时听听LA theatre works
loh down on science 也不错不过听不大懂

我听这期的WAIT WAIT DON＂T TELL ME ，里面说中国政府刚给西藏佛教下了新规定，转世要经过政府批准－－当然只是转成人，转动物啊，虫子啊就不用。笑死。

我也是NPR的扇子. 基本上看电视看得不是很多,新闻基本靠NPR.

MARKET PLACE 我是差不多天天听的.

THIS AMERICAN LIFE, 非常好听,周日下午. 曾经听过一个LES变性手术之后, 讨论这个从女变男的事对生活的影响. 一点也不肤浅,非常有意思. 比如他说从手术后,他就对物理啊,数学啊,机械啊, 有了特别大的兴趣. 还有好多特别有意思的观察.

我听了几天MARKET PLACE ，觉得还是太浅，老讲解基本概念又没什么有深度的信息和分析。

Are you talking about Marketplace (weekdays) or Marketplace Money? The latter is a weekend hour program about personal finance and talks about basic stuff. The former is Monday through Friday. It's a news program that reports market news and global financial stuff. They often report on China (at least weekly and sometimes almost every day). Occasionally they have news about new gadgets and products on the market. They talk about the stock market a little bit every day but not in depth.

Marketplace (weekdays).
They talk about stock market fair amount. What moves it, mostly. And market has moved A LOT recently.
What bores me a bit is they have no depth in their news. Like the sub prime mortgage fall out: Mortgage backed securities are sophisticatedly engineered piece of product. It is just such a fascinating cross over between finance and math, beautiful, yet imperfect. How and why the system failed in such a large scale is incredibly interesting subject. Yes so far, I have not read any in-depth report on this, despite the huge impact and massive amount of finger pointing going on. Not only that, there is not even a good comprehensive article to help people understand how the system works. It is just painted as a "greed" machine that finally broke down. That's not true. It is a machine that worked, overloaded by greed, and broke down.

Yeah, I am also wondering why the quant models failed on such a huge scale. It will be really interesting to have an understanding, but neither have I seen an article that talks about it in depth. Actually I don't need anything in depth, not like I would understand it. But something more than just "greed", please, I am not 8-year-old.

这么专业精深的内容，如果小K能满意，那我这种花儿街外的工人肯定听不懂。小K给咱解释解释，这两天financial sector的恐惧，我怎么都看不出对其他sector有根本性的影响，我觉得现在收紧银根对改变过去几年的拿钱打水漂的做法是有好处的。What do they (the generalized selling madness) know that others don't that's driving the massive sell-off?

我的金融财政知识不比大众多，而且一到MBS 这些专业领域，不干这个的金融专家也不那么清楚这些DEAL 是怎么构造的，为什么建立在一堆破烂次贷款上的TRANCHE A 等级就那么高。我稍微知道MBS 的构造，但是这些概念只要跟大众一解释，有逻辑能力，懂得概率的普通人也能听懂。就怕有人写了胡扯洒狗血的文章，误导读者。

最近的恐慌其实满复杂的。有些有直接关系，房地产不旺了HOMEDEPOT 生意也要变差，所以股票下跌。消费者信心下跌WALMART 等零售商手影响。有些看上去没直接关系，简单的说，是银根抽紧造成抛售套现，就是大家庭里有个孩子出去赌钱欠了高利贷，全家只好卖房子卖地还赌债，本来要投资的生意也不能投资了。那就影响了那个生意，虽然表面上这生意跟那孩子赌钱毫无关系。再有就是利率高了，所以所有要借钱的并购，私募生意都都受影响。然后这就意外的影响了好多在并购生意上下赌注的基金。。。就是这么传染开的。

还有DERIVATIVE用的太多了余地太小, 有点什么就MARGIN CALL要抛售套现, 滚雪球的放大.

Yes, I like Marketplace a lot, especially when they report on China. I feel their style is friendly, vivid, objective and passionate.

Knowing, please ignore the stock part these days. Just go to this website to download some mp3. I really hope you'll enjoy them too.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/china2006/

I still remember "Meet the Gao family".

Yeah, they sometimes report weird stuff that you wouldn't see anywhere else and have no political implications at all. It's just refreshing. Like the recent story on guys hiring women to insidiously accompany them in bars to get access to other women. I have to admit the psychology totally works.

Quizas, thanks for recommending "The story".

It's really good! I found myself enjoy every single episode for the last two weeks.

hmm missed this thread earlier. on one level i think marketplace is done well - it's more interesting and expansive than sound bites on network tv.

but yes, i agree with knowing that it barely scratches the surface. i understand that they are not targeting the finance crowd, but it's still strange that you can listen to their entire program without actually hearing or understanding what moved the market that day. same goes for their international coverage - they could do better.

my faves are wait wait, fresh air and this american life.

最近开始听的几个podcast. 推荐给喜欢 This American Life 的人。


NPR radio Diaries
Radio Diaries works with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates and others whose voices are rarely heard. We help people share their stories―and their lives―in their own words, creating documentaries that are powerful, surprising, intimate and timeless.
http://www.radiodiaries.org/

PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast
It's story time for adults with PRI's award-winning series of short fiction read by the stars of stage and screen. Recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC and on tour. A co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio.
http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts

为什么我听了几次AMERICAN LIFE 都听不下去。
现在我不听MARKET PLACE 了，改听PLANET MONEY。也不是特别好，但是比MARKET PLACE 少注重新闻多注重背景知识。

AMERICAN LIFE不是每次都好听。他们最近还改成新一期只有一周时间免费听了。

小K上次我推荐的Good Food你听过么。我现在每周听这个，南加州的农夫市场太馋人了。

我听了几次觉得他们老说加州啥当季，又谗又嫉妒，听不下去了。不过这是ST MONICA 的当地电台也难怪。。。

问个土问题， podcast是不是就是可以在网上下载事先录好的节目? 一个个下载不是很麻烦吗？下到Ipod里听？

我觉得BBC的一些podcasts比NPR的好

我跟CAVA有同感，英美两处的节目不完全能互通，很需要背景信息。BBC的我听了几个，都没有坚持下去。
而笑嘻嘻特别推荐的A Prairie Home Companion，我也未能喜欢上。那个人说话我听着老觉得喘不上气来，怪难受的。

很土地问，ipod不是iphone, 不能上网， 如何能自动下载呢？
[quote="sadcore"]我觉得BBC的一些podcasts比NPR的好

[quote="qinger"]很土地问，ipod不是iphone, 不能上网， 如何能自动下载呢？
[quote="sadcore"]我觉得BBC的一些podcasts比NPR的好

我拿出小笔记本问:是不是没有iPod,也可以从网上下到电脑上，然后转到随便什么mp3上去？那个，这样子的话从网上下载到电脑这一步可以自动么？如果没有iPod,能用iTune么？

你没有ipod 也可以用itune. itune 就是个音乐管理软件。podcast 都是mp3。不过如果你没有ipod 而用别的mp3 player，自动sync 就不知怎么用了。我以前用过zen，他们自己带的音乐管理软件里有podcast 功能的。

多谢Knowing ,刚下了iTune.暂时不能sync无所谓，我其实现在主要也是用电脑听，没有多少时间在路上需要用mp3的。

刚刚下了一个wait wait don't tell me在听

很逗吧！！！

嗯！

是不是说在itune上可以设自动下载自己subscribe的podcaset节目，然后只要电脑开机时节目有更新就会自动下载？
如果是这样，我可以把我尘封多年的ipod拿出来用了。我一直反感ipod,itune这套东西，都是因为ipod买得太早，买到垃圾产品。
我还有不知什么地方给我寄的$25itune gift card, 差点扔垃圾堆了。