Hello.

Welcome to my blog.

Ten days of podcasts: an audio accompaniment to pandemic lockdown in 2020

Ten days of podcasts: an audio accompaniment to pandemic lockdown in 2020

David Jarman
Edinburgh, podcasts, lockdown
Another walk

Another walk

Spring 2020. Edinburgh is “in lockdown”. Scotland, the UK, most of the world, is “in lockdown”. Movement is restricted. When people walk out they cut into the middle of the road to avoid each other. When people walk out there aren’t many places for them to go but back home again. This is just one dimension of my experience of our collective response to a global crisis.

Spring 2020. My son is now a toddler. He hasn’t been to nursery for a few months. He hasn’t had physical contact with anyone but his parents since then. But he’s doing fine. We go for walks, and people walk in the middle of the road to avoid us. But that’s ok.

Spring 2020. My son doesn’t sleep through the night. He tends to wake a couple of times: somewhere around midnight, and again three or four hours later. When I go to see him we sit and share the calmness of the early hours.

Spring 2020: good conditions in which to get through a few podcasts, wouldn’t you say? Out on long walks, or awake through the early hours, there’s time to kill.

I spent 10 days tweeting out links to each podcast episode I listened to from Friday April 24 to Sunday May 3. Here, then, is what I listened to.

  • 35 episodes in total

  • Nine about Apple (the company)

  • Three about digital technology more generally

  • Two about parenting

  • Two about Watford Football Club

  • 11 on politics, of one form or another

  • 14 from the BBC

  • 30 hours of content (approximately)

I’m going to spend some time and a few posts using these 35 episodes to reflect on what I listen to in a typical 10 day stretch. Listening to podcasts helps to keep me sane and in touch with the world, so I’m entrusting my peace of mind to these hours of audio companionship.

Listening to 35 podcasts in 10 days: is that enough? Too many?

Listening to 35 podcasts in 10 days: is that enough? Too many?
Edinburgh festival 2016 round-up / #edfests

Edinburgh festival 2016 round-up / #edfests

Related Posts