Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape

Following on from my earlier post regarding Podcasts etc, I’d just like to point you in the direction of Adam Buxton’s new show on 6Music – Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape.

A blend of weird & wonderful music and chat, with guests in the studio.

Highly recommended – well worth checking out..

Cheers

Podcasts, and why I don’t read books..

There was a time when I used to read books, regularly. No better way to pass the time on the daily commute into London than losing yourself in a good book.

Then things changed. Firstly, it was free newspapers. When you are walking to the station and someone thrusts a newspaper into your hands, you can’t help but take it. The combination of the Metro in the morning, followed by the London Lite and the London Paper in the evening (now both superceded by the Evening Standard becoming a freebie) - led to me carrying a book around in my bag, and never reading it. Eventually I stopped even carrying the book.

Then I got an mp3 player (not an iPod at first, it was a Creative Zen thingy, it was pretty  good).  I’m not the sort of person who can listen to music and read at the same time, so the music took over for quite a while, and the books and papers were both relegated to the Reserve team.

iTunes

2006 – I switched. I got a Mac. Everything changed. I got totally into iTunes and all it has to offer. Wasn’t long before I got my first iPod – a 30GB iPod with video.

Then I discovered podcasts. and that was it for me. No more books, newspapers or music. Well, I still pick up the newspapers and thumb through them, and I do listen to music when I’ve got through all the podcasts, but primarily it’s podcasts for me now.

It’s great to be able to listen to radio shows you missed, or someone talking about a subject that really interests you. There are some great video podcasts too, both entertaining and educational. I should add I now have an iPod Touch 32GB, and watching video is a joy.

If you haven’ t tried podcasts, I suggest you do. They’re completely free – just subscribe to them in iTunes and they are automatically delivered to you whenever a new one is released.

Here’s some of my favourite podcasts:

Adam & Joe

Adam Buxton’s Mixtape

The Collings and Herrin Podcast

Frank Skinner on Absolute Radio

The Perfect Ten with Phill Jupitus and Phil Wilding

British Mac

Pets

Photoshop User TV

D-Town TV

Photofocus

Friday Night Comedy from Radio 4

As It Occurs To Me

That’s just the ones I can remember. See what I mean?