A summery episode this week, as a guitar-wielding Mark "MJ" Hibbett swings by to serenade us in the sunshine, and we snack on Southwold's finest seaside fare.
Mark is responsible for the world's first internet hit, the gloriously nostalgic vintage computing paean Hey Hey 16K ("What does that get you today?") plus loads of other brilliant songs AND a new rock musical about dinosaurs and robots called Dinosaur Planet.
Everything about that paragraph was good.
Poor Roo has been ill (watching the entire Alien/Predator franchise - more of which in the next episode), but Dave and Leila have been to a radio rally in Luton, where some old computer books and a few Spectrum tapes were picked up with you in mind, gentle SRS listener. Just write in and let us know which one you want along with your address, perhaps in the form of a short Spectrum BASIC program.
"Hey Hey, 16K, What does that get you today?
You need more than that for a letter
Old Skool Ram Paks are much better."
A wise man, that Mark "MJ" Hibbett. He joins us on Thursday for an impromptu gig in the park, and he even wrote a fun blogpost about it. Incidentally, most of the old computer books and tapes in the video are up for grabs too. So like, give us a shout, yeah? Those were the days.
A rough and ready little episode this week, as our Roo - the edit smarts - has been off on a well-earned holiday (though Roofans relax: his past self does grace this episode - before he left we discussed Red Dead Redemption).
And while he was drinking in the Spanish sunshine, Leila and Dave were drinking in the complimentary wine at the premier of the BCS's Information Pioneers campaign, which aims to highlight the trailblazers of the information age through a series of films and a public appeal to vote for your favourite. The films are presented by some familiar faces (and an enjoyably hyperactive Twitter account) and you'll hear us hobnob with Ortis Deley from the Gadget Show, Kate Russell and LJ Rich from Click as well as the charming writer and producer team behind the short films (which are online here.)
Mellifluous-voiced Kathy reads the news on Radio 4, stars in Scott Mills' 'Posh Radio 4 Lady' segment, plays the 'uke', writes books, loves Twitter, and still finds time to tell you to turn around when possible on your Tom Tom. We had a great chat and she even played a few requests for us.
It was still hot outside when recorded this, so drink in the exotic holiday atmosphere, wintery futureboy, as we step outside to sample some sun-drenched refreshments with Dave Green from dormant cybervolcano NTK.
Kathy is the soft Irish voice of Radio 4 news, but you might have her in your car if you have a Tom Tom, or know her as Posh Radio 4 Lady from the Scott Mills show, if you listen to Radio 1. She plays the ukelele. She's now writing a book based on a game she invented on Twitter. Trust us, she is brilliant.
Games games and more games. And breakfast cereal. In this week's episode we meet two heroes of British gaming at Game Camp, play some video game legends trump cards, eat a wide and frankly terrifying range of breakfast cereals and talk about iPhone games. Keep your datasette peeled for the secret 'datablast' at the end of the episode too.
A summery episode this week, as a guitar-wielding Mark "MJ" Hibbett swings by to serenade us in the sunshine, and we snack on Southwold's finest seaside fare.
