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I’m known as a bit of a film nut, although anyone who has seen our living room dvd nook and then the two piles behind the chair and finally the overspill in my workroom will know that both bit, and nut are rather tame.

Also our collection runs at a number of strange tangents, I say tangents because they do overlap some actors and sad person that I am I can given you those tangents

However, I also adore listening to the radio, its easier when beading, and until we got the MythTv set up to record digital radio my best friends in the world where BBC’s Listen Again and MPlayer.

At the moment while I’m eagerly awaiting the next Lindsay Davis’ novel to be serialised as a Radio Play; the previous four were very well done, I’m trying to make an effort to listen to some other shows, that I might have overlooked but now have the time to listen to.

At the moment I’m very much enjoying Tomorrow, Today! which is currently in it’s second series on Radio 4. Set in 1962 it sees a somewhat beleaguered radio producer and writer trying to produce a show set in 2008, the 2008 as expected in 2008. The show deals more with the cast and crew than then actual stories they are trying to air but you get some hilarious snippets. My favourite was mention of the villian “Dr J Chaotica, bachelour of Science” which reminded me a great deal of Dr. Science, who if you are not familiar with him and his radio show where he gives the more incredible explanations for everyday things: “Knows more than you do” despite the fact that “He’s not a real doctor. I have a Masters degree. In… Science”.

Of course podcasts are great, but so far BBC radio doesn’t podcast much of its (proper)comedy, neither Russell Brand nor Chris Moyles are my cup of tea, but at the very least they do roll The News Quiz and the Now Show in to a single podcast subscription.

But yesterday after discovering that the SciFi channel have removed the Seeing Ear Theatre archive form their website, boo hiss, I did find another podcast of OTR shows at Pirate TV Theatre Classic Radio Drama . Alas, not all the shows seem to bee still in their podcast directory but there were a good 70 or more available when I set my iTunes on it yesterday afternoon. The website SFFAudio is a good source of sites which collect OTR shows, but I’ve not investigated much further, as I don’t want to deluge myself with more than I can listen to quite yet

Also, for those mourning the passing of the Seeing Ear Theatre into apparent oblivion, before I managed to capture their archive, and as far as I can tell they only every released some of the plays on tape ( I’ve got volume one which my uncle bought me many years ago, I can blame him for many things including my MST3K fixation which has since been caught by my husband) , I discovered that they are recreating the classic Twilight Zone shows as Audio Dramas, they’ve been at it for a few years now, and while it seems to only be broadcast int he US they have a number of CD sets out, at around $39 each, which gets you about 10 episodes. I’ve ordered a couple and can’t wait to hear them.

However, Amazon have just provided me with Diana Wynne Jones’ Charmed Life, abridged(alas) read by Tom Baker(wh00t!) which should provide at least 3 hours of fun.