We love a bit of tech abuse on this podcast, so it's a real pleasure to bring you James Larsson, mad scientist extraordinaire. James hit the headlines on the BBC news site with his most recent project, Boot Fetish Pong, but old-skool listeners might remember seeing his prawn sandwich BBC micro clock back when Dave and Danny were still a couple, at Notcon 04.
We also read out some of your letters, greet our new listeners, road test Britain's spiciest crisps, and come up with an infallible new business model for the podcast. Roo has a go on a vintage adding machine and, to celebrate the week in which the podcast went nuclear, Leila visits the steamy reactor towers of scenic Dungeness. Just look at the links below. Phew! What a line-up.
Oh, and we were serious about putting limited edition hand made Shift Run Stop episodes on cassette tapes. Buy one now, quick, before you change your mind.
This video also features footage of Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, which Leila visited this week, and the sounds of which will feature on a forthcoming episode.
This week we are lucky enough to be joined by technology broadcaster Aleks Krotoski, known for her work at the Guardian (particularly the Tech Weekly podcast) and most recently for her new four-part prime time BBC Two series, Virtual Revolution. Aleks tells us about some of the leading lights she spoke to on this innovative show and explains why she believes we live in such exciting times. Still, we can't resist reminding her of some of her more dedicated followers.
Virtual Revolution is on Saturdays, 8:15, BBC 2, and you can watch the latest episode on iPlayer. Needless to say, she can be found on Twitter.
We also accost Mark, one of the dashing chaps who stands on a box outside Hamleys in a top hat. He tells us about the origins of the biggest toyshop in the known universe, and why his daughter hates Toy Story.
Meanwhile, Dave Green continues to eat rubbish so you don't have to, as we look back on the second half of the decade in snacks.
Aleks also heads up the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast. She shot to geek megastardom in the late 90s, hosting TV shows like Bits and Thumb Bandits, and she maintains a loyal follower base from those days.
In this week's fun-packed edition of Shift Run Stop we hear the sounds of ponies, meet real life author, Guardian columnist and dad Chris Cleave, learn about the San Francisco weather system from our foreign correspondent Anna Pickard, get a topical confectionery newsflash from our snacks expert Dave Green and more besides! Something for everyone, surely?
Chris is an author and journalist. He writes a column for the Guardian Family section every week and both of his novels have been adapted for feature films. The first, 'Incendiary', starred Ewan McGregor, and the second 'The Other Hand' (published as 'Little Bee' in the US) will feature Nicole Kidman.
He joins us in episode 11 of Shift Run Stop, arriving in your ear holes on Thursday 28th January.
We love a bit of tech abuse on this podcast, so it's a real pleasure to bring you James Larsson, mad scientist extraordinaire. James hit the headlines on the BBC news site with his most recent project, Boot Fetish Pong, but old-skool listeners might remember seeing his prawn sandwich BBC micro clock back when Dave and Danny were still a couple, at Notcon 04.
More links: James Larsson's website | The Facit C1-13 Pinwheel Calculator | Dorkbot (London) | Leila in the new issue of Wired | Dungeness Nuclear Power Station | Leila's video from just outside Dungeness A [plus James Bridle, matchbox-loving friend of the SRS, has a lovely writeup and photo set of Dungeness too] | Snackspot | Travel Without The Tardis [buy].
This week we are lucky enough to be joined by technology broadcaster 
