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We meet John Graham-Cumming and hear about his new project, Plan 28, which aims to build Babbage's Analytical Engine from the original plans. John is also well known for successfully petitioning the Government to grant a formal apology for Alan Turing, and is the author of the Geek Atlas. Come back on Thursday for the full audio [...]

You know when you're on the train, and you think "Oh there's Jigsaw, just getting on at this stop. Hi Jigsaw!" You know. Usually happens the day after you watched all the Saw films in a row, like this week's guest Sarah Dobbs did recently. Luckily, she's a horror fan... she's also a journalist, and [...]

Magazine editor, sometime WIRED journalist, horror expert and general geek impresario Sarah Dobbs is this week's special guest. Check out the excellent new mag she's created, re/action, if you've ever thought there should be more pop culture stuff for and about interesting women.

We chat to a games-creator this week, the talented Minkette, and hear about some of her extraordinary projects - which range from mindbending ARGs to a radio-transmitted theatre production on the Tube. All that plus Kinect hacking, real world point-and-clicks, and Rockband with Grannie in this foil-fresh square of your Shift Run Stop advent calendar. Now [...]

Games designer Minkette performs 'in the style of Bjork' at our request. Tune in on Thursday to hear about the games and performances she has created.

Artist, designer, writer, and man of extraordinary imagination Dominic Wilcox calls in for a chat about his latest creations which include bread lampshades and helium-powered crisp packets. We also find out what Leila would've tweeted had she still been on Twitter, and Roo starts feeling festive at the South Bank's Christmas fair. Oh, and you [...]

We're honoured to be joined by artist, designer, and general imaginer of wonderment, Dominic Wilcox this week. Read about him on his site, and be sure to come back here on Thursday for the full-length audio episode.

Leila went to R3PLAY, the enormous retro-gaming event in Blackpool, and has returned armed with interviews with loads of people, including Sensible Soccer creator John Hare, Adam from the National Museum of Computing, and retro computing enthusiast off-the-telly Iain Lee. Back at Shift Run Stop Towers, our snackfood correspondent Dave Green takes us on a gastronomical voyage [...]

Leila went to the R3PLAY retrogaming expo in Blackpool last week, and has returned armed with interviews - including this one of retrogaming fan and star of telly and radio, Iain Lee. This, plus snacks, chat and all the usual shenanigans this Thursday on Shift Run Stop.

We welcome another ridiculously talented guest this week, in the form of acclaimed screen actor Andy Nyman. The horror aficionado joined us on his only night off from the West End hit Ghost Stories, which he wrote and stars in - though you might also remember his turn as the deliciously aggressive Patrick in Charlie Brooker's zombie satire [...]

Andy is a modern polymath. Award winning actor, star of stage (most recently, his very own West End hit Ghost Stories) and screen (Black Death, Death at a Funeral, Severance etc etc ). You probably saw him stealing scenes in Charlie Brooker's Dead Set... and he's Derren Brown's right-hand man. See you back here on Thursday 11th [...]

It's all bionic legs, bananas and biplanes this week, as we meet the exuberant comedian Helen Keen, creator of acclaimed stand-up show and soon-to-be Radio 4 series "It IS rocket science". There's big news from Roo, inane comments about time travel from Leila, and your hosts finally get some decent food in them, via some [...]

Comedian Helen Keen created the universally praised stage show "It IS rocket science" - currently being made into a Radio 4 series. Here she tells us about another big interest of hers - the golden age of aviation (and isn't she great?!) This is just a taster of course, come back on Thursday for the [...]

Yes, we've reached episode 50. When we started a year ago we didn't really know what the show would be like, or how sustainable it could be, so we're pleased to have made it this far. Thanks for sticking with it (would a hug be inappropriate?) In this one-off, one-for-the-fans, where-are-they-now geekstravaganza, excellent early guest Alice [...]

We bring back an early guest (one of our faves) for our extra-special Episode 50 show. Alice Bartlett is a programmer currently working on Android apps, and we think she's ace. She tells us about Theme Hospital and more, in this short clip. Full audio episode will materialise here and on iTunes, on Thursday 28th!