We chatted with artist Sydney Padua this week. Sydney's animated creations appear in loads of blockbuster movies, but she's a star of the small screen too - you might have seen her extremely funny web comic Babbage and Lovelace doing the rounds lately. With Ada Lovelace Day coming up very soon, Sydney tells us about the great lady herself, her struggles and achievements, and her unique relationship with Difference Engine-inventing eccentric Charles Babbage.
Sydney even drew some stunning designs on inlay cards for our tape sale, and we're offering those at a slight premium over on the tapes page. You'd better get in fast though, she only did a handful!
Meanwhile Dave brings us treats we can eat from India, and treats we can play from 1995, and there are exclusive sounds from inside your hosts' fridges.
Ada Lovelace Day is the 24th of March; support the cause by writing a blog post about a woman who has inspired your interest in science or tech. Let's all write about Sydney and freak her out.
We meet animator Sydney Padua this week. If you don't know her, you probably know her art; she's worked on loads of high profile films, including The Golden Compass and the new Clash of the Titans. And now she's an internet celebrity, thanks to her very funny and smart internet comic about Babbage and Lovelace... in Sydney's version they're a crime-fighting duo, but you might be surprised how much of the story is based on truth! This trailer clip also contains shots of some of the inlay cards she kindly drew for our cassette sale.
You might recognise Zeb's voice from Radio 4 news, continuity announcements and the iconic Shipping Forecast. He's also very funny and, unexpectedly, looks like he should be in a boyband. We also hear about Roo's hobbity holiday in the New Forest and Leila's trip to Decode Lab at the V&A.
Dave comes back from India loaded up with imported Turkish snacks, Roo invents a system for randomly allocating seats at any future Shift Run Stop party, and an address in an old comic leads Leila to the doorstep of the former Dennis the Menace fanclub.
Meanwhile, we're pretty sure we remain the only podcast available on audio cassette. Shout out to Rev Dan Catt who is not only buying every episode on tape, but has also bought a tape player especially, and is taking it on the train, like it's a bloody Walkman.
Do keep sending in recordings of the inside of your fridge and if you're going abroad, or already abroad, we'd love to get your snacks for our new Around the World in 80 Snacks project.
Does Zeb Soanes' voice sound familiar? He reads the legendary Shipping Forecast regularly on Radio 4, as well as the news bulletins. This clip also features Roo Reynolds, Leila Johnston and Dave Green and the full episode will go out on iTunes (and Shiftrunstop.co.uk) on March 4th.
Check out Zeb's website and keep up with us on Twitter, too: @shiftrunstop
Pepys blogger, Pretend Office worker and former Aardman animator Phil Gyford was kind enough to not only bring himself to Shift Run Stop towers, but also his Mega Drive.
We natter with the Internet's Dave Green about the BAFTA Film Awards (which Roo also went to) and dorkbotlondon (which Leila also went to). Leila meets a previous SRS guest at The Story and Dave nearly answers a listener's question about biscuits. We try out some exciting recent Cadbury launches with varying success and, as ever, you can put your own snack question to Dave via email or using #askdavegreen on Twitter.
Phil Gyford is the brains behind numerous fun things you've probably come across on the internet, including pepysdiary.com, the @samuelpepys Twitter feed and the brilliant pretendoffice.co.uk. We also like him because, as you'll see, he let us play on his Mega Drive.
This episode will be available to download on the 25th of February! Be there and be square!
We chatted with artist Sydney Padua this week. Sydney's animated creations appear in loads of blockbuster movies, but she's a star of the small screen too - you might have seen her extremely funny web comic Babbage and Lovelace doing the rounds lately. With Ada Lovelace Day coming up very soon, Sydney tells us about the great lady herself, her struggles and achievements, and her unique relationship with Difference Engine-inventing eccentric Charles Babbage.
Sydney even drew some stunning designs on inlay cards for our tape sale, and we're offering those at a slight premium over on the tapes page. You'd better get in fast though, she only did a handful!
You might recognise Zeb's voice from Radio 4 news, continuity announcements and the iconic 
