Devotees of "Walter Edgar's Journal" can now listen to the weekly 53-minute broadcast about South Carolina arts, culture, and history via pod cast from the S.C. ETV Web site.

"It's an easy way to get the show anytime and for out-of-state alumni to be able to tune in to things back home," said Edgar, professor of history and director of the Institute for Southern Studies at USC.

The journal, which covers everything from beach music to barbecue while taking listeners along on journeys into South Carolina's past and present, is broadcast at noon Fridays and 2 p.m. Saturdays on the S.C. Educational Radio Network.

For listeners who can't tune in then, the 53-minute show is available anytime from their computer, which can download an audio file of the program via an automatic feed from the S.C. ETV Web site. The pod cast site is www.myetv.org/podcast<http://www.myetv.org/podcast>.

Recent journal programs have included conversations with John Shelton Reed, author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the South; Rodger Stroup, director of the S.C. Department of Archives and History, talking about researching your family tree; and Bernard Powers, author of Black Charlestonians, a book about how freed blacks took on new social responsibilities during Reconstruction.

6/06