An impossibly long time ago, when I was a small child, long before television appeared on the scene, our house had two radios, one in the kitchen one in the lounge room. We'd listen to serials and weekly programs on the radio as a family, sitting round the fire with the dial glowing and the lights out. But we also had crystal sets - contraptions with arials composed of very long bits of wire slung out over the roof and round the chimney and ear phones that looked like surgical appliances, and a tuning apparatus that was so hair trigger if you could pick up the same station twice it was a miracle. But with the crystal set you could lie in bed and pick up incredibly faint scratchy radio stations all by yourself. It was somehow much more immediate and personal than the broadcast radio in the family spaces. The real buzz was that you could listen to what you wanted to.
Podcasting is a bit like that. I don't think I could bear commuting without podcasts, which I download onto my pocket pc. My favourite at the moment is Coffee Break Spanish - Mark and Cara deliver a charming weekly podcast Spanish lesson in beautiful Edinburgh accents. If you want to learn Spanish, give them a listen.
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