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Great that its possible to catch up with episodes that you didn't catch live. Not always possible for me to listen on Friday mornings at 09.00 or Sunday at 11.15. The issues has always been that the BBC doesn't own the rights to Desert Island Discs. They remain with the founders, the late Roy Plomley, family and for some reason the BBC had never been able to reach agreement with them over iPlayer.

OK, the ultimate would have been a Desert Island Discs podcast but beggars can't be choosers. Anyway we would have been limited to 30 secs of each bit of music. Having said that you often don't get much more on the radio!

Always been a big fan of the program. I remember when Roy Plomley presented it. A real gentleman who ensured he never overshadowed the guest. Thats more than could be said for Michael Parkinson who was terrible. Sue Lawley's long reign was great for the programme and I was said when she paicked it in. I awlays remember when she had Robert Maxwell as a guest and bought out the full character of the man. perhaps "evil genius" would be fitting.

Now we have Kirsity Young. I didn't like her at first but she's growing on me. I hope desert island Discs goes on forever. If I was on the progrram I would choose:-

1. Boots of Spanish Leather (The Dubliners)
2. Green Onions (Booker T and the MG's)
3. Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits)
4. Red Red Wine (UB40)
5. Lord Franklin (The Pentangle)
6. A Simple Life (Ricky Scaggs)
7. Dance The Night away (The Mavericks)
8. Easy's Gettin Harder Every day (Iris DeMent)
9. Teenage Kicks (The Undertones)
10. Jerusalem (not sure who by yet)

(Ok I know thats 10 but I can't choose eight! Anyway I think that it was ten in the old days)

One Record - Lord Franklin
Book - History of the Brooklands Motor Course by William Boddy
Luxury - An engine and a set of tools to rebuild it with

We are great Radio fans here at Chaos Manor and went digital some time ago and even have a built in one in the daily driver. There's a lot of debate about the commercial future of DAB, but meanwhile you can get extra BBC channels, including un-interupted Cricket when the test matches are on! Some of the commercial stuff is a bit weird but Planet Rock is pretty good and you get people like Rick Wakeman in presenters.

The problem is how do you listen to digital in the car if you haven't got a (expensive) built in set. Well Pure have come up with the answer. A windscreen mounted Digital Receiver/Low Power FM transmitter that you stick inside your windscreen. It then receives the Digital signal and sends it as an FM signal to your built in FM radio to extend its Digital FM capability. I have a bought a few bits of Pure kit and they have all been pretty good.

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Just a bit of fun at http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames

Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) comforts the widowed Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt) by her Malibu beach house in this 1973 version of The Long Goodbye