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1. At 01:22 PM on 08 Nov 2007, Tony Mason wrote:

   Hi Victoria,

   Podcasts are fantastic. There's just so much great radio around that the only way to listen to it all is to take it on holiday. I recently took 60 hours of such shows (including 5 of your phone-ins) on a 3 week cruise from LA to New York through the Panama Canal and am now 'collecting' another lot for when I go skiing in January. I'm aiming for about 80 hours this time.The majority are from 5 Live and Radio 4 and the broadsheets.

   Long hours on trains and at airports just fly by and it no longer matters if the in-flight entertainment isn't very good or doesn't work.

   So make sure the phone-ins remain indispensable !

   Best wishes

   Tony, St Ives Cornwall

2. At 07:27 AM on 09 Nov 2007, Victoria wrote:

   Thanks Tony

   It's good to know. My former breakfast co-presenter at Radio Manchester (GMR in the old days) who is hmmm in his fifties proudly told me he downloads LOADS of stuff - he was very keen to let me know it wasn't just for the youth of today.

   But my next question is - I can see why you might download Feedback on Radio 4 which is timeless (sort of) - whereas our phone-in is directly related to the news of the day - so why would you want to listen to it a week later? When it's old news?

   Victoria

3. At 09:56 AM on 09 Nov 2007, Tony Mason wrote:

   Hello Victoria

   Fair point, some of the 5 Live podcasts (yours, Sportsweek) might seems to 'date' as you say but in many ways listening to a show with hindsight can be even better. Three weeks ago I was on a beach in the Bahamas listening to football 'experts' commenting that England's path to Euro 2008 would be plain sailing after outclassing Russia at Wembley. The evening before they had lost in Russia on that plastic pitch. You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh. And many of your phone-ins don't date - there will always be a hard core of subjects that keep coming up, like crime rates, society breakdown, education/health standards, human rights, the performance of the England football/cricket/rugby teams, Iraq, Europe etc that will be forever topical. And in any case if I haven't listened to a podcast within 3 months I delete it !

   PS Well done Bolton last night

   Tony
   

4. At 03:10 PM on 09 Nov 2007, Andy wrote:

   What's a podcast?!!?? I'm still struggling to come to terms with more than four TV channels...

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5. At 10:55 AM on 11 Nov 2007, Eamon Lyons wrote:

   Hi Victoria,

   I subscribe to 11 podcasts a week and update them daily. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ football podcasts I listen to every day I like fivelive's excellent new football daily podcast. I also download 606, Sportsweek and the World football phone-in. They are the easiest way for me to keep in touch with football news as I live on the other side of the world.

   The other podcasts I download and listen to when I’m out and about – some documentaries from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3, some from RTE in Ireland and I found another weekly football podcast on The Times website

   I don't have to download your one as I can listen to the broadcast live. Keep up the good work!

   Kind Regards
   Eamon
   

6. At 09:09 PM on 11 Nov 2007, Alan Cole wrote:

   I download podcasts of big interviews that have usually been trailed on the Breakfast Programme or on Drive, when I am listening live, but which I can't listen to during the day when I am working. I have just finished listening to Simon Mayo interviewing Duncan Fletcher earlier in the week and the Lewis Hamilton interview from Sportsweek this morning. I also podcast Aggers Close of Play as I am usually playing with the children or putting them to bed when it's on.

   Probably a very boring use of podcasting to just time-shift radio to suit me but I find it really useful.

7. At 12:00 PM on 13 Nov 2007, Jer wrote:

   Would agree with Alan (#6) - good way to time-shift radio to suit. I'm often only able to catch part of a show or interview that I want to hear, occasionally miss out entirely. Podcasts mean I can catch up later. I also use them when I want to have the radio on whilst I work, but can't find anything that doesn't irritate me!

8. At 12:24 PM on 13 Nov 2007, wrote:

   I drive more than 2 hours to work so podcasts makes it much more bearable.

9. At 01:04 PM on 13 Nov 2007, Norman wrote:

   Hi Victoria

   As some others have already said, Podcasts are great! I regularly download your show, plus the Daily Mayo and Mark Kermode's film reviews.

   In my previous job I travelled quite a lot, so was able to listen to Five Live regularly during the day. With my change in jobs that isn't possible now - without the wonder of Podcasts.

   Genuinely, I'd really miss my Five Live podcasts if they weren't available.

   Keep up the good work! Cheers.
   Norman

10. At 01:37 PM on 13 Nov 2007, Phil wrote:

    I would download podcasts of 5 live's football commentaries , but i guess for legal reasons that's not possible ??

    Pity.

11. At 06:12 PM on 13 Nov 2007, John Foster wrote:

    Without fail i podcast Fighting talk. This has to be one of the best radio shows around. I listen to 5live on during the day & also on an evening but i aint around on a Saturday morning.

12. At 07:13 PM on 13 Nov 2007, victoria wrote:

    Hi everyone

    I urge you to download today's podcast (tues 13th nov) if you missed the ex-wife and son of Ronald Castree, the man beginning a 30 year jail sentence today for the murder of the schoolgirl Lesley Molseed all those years ago.
    Beverly and Nick were frank, moving and courageous in the way they spoke about the horror of living with a violent perverted man who turned into a murderer.

    Thanks

    Victoria

13. At 01:20 PM on 15 Nov 2007, Joe Jones wrote:

    There are only two podcasts that I will not miss:

    1. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Four's In Our Time - regardless of whether or not one has a specific interest in one of the topics they elucidate, one ALWAYS - without fail, I think - comes away with an enhanced sense of the meaning of life:

    /radio4/history/inourtime

    and

    2. Jodrell Bank's astronomy podcast, The Jodcast:

    This twice-monthly podcast is great unsophisticated fun, and it makes a change to hear entertainment amateurs having fun while introducing the listener to some absolutely fantastic and fascinating astronomical information and news. I'd recommend it to everyone, astronomer or not.