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It was only a matter of time before we had this Original Internet Celeb on the show. Danny O'Brien is of course Dave's former partner in crime from the world-famous geek newsletter NTK. He's been involved with the EFF, the ORG and loads of other stuff in recent years but has never forgotten his early [...]

These days, internet celebrity Danny is renowned for his civil liberties campaigning (and for being very funny), but many listeners will recall that he used to edit the excellent weekly geek newsletter NTK with Dave Green, who now does the snacks segment on our show! In this episode, the old team reminisce about writing for geeks [...]

Geeky fun beyond your, er, quite wild dreams this week as we chat with the utterly delightful Thom and Myk from the Thomyk podcast about comics, Lego, D&D, dice, and of course podcasting. Snack seer Dave Green divines the most unexpected drinks of the summer, including at least one that's so unexpected, it's not even a [...]

...from the extra-good Thomyk podcast of course.

If you like games you probably already know about games wizard Dan Hon, and even if you don't know him you're bound to have come across his work. Together with his brother Adrian, Dan co-founded Six to Start, the award-winning games company behind teen ARG Smokescreen and involved with loads of [...]

Your hosts catch up after a couple of weeks away from SRS Towers, in this chat-packed reunion episode. Learn how Roo coped with a physical illness at the risk of inducing a mental one by binge-eating a sci-fi box-set with his eye-mouth. Meanwhile, Leila finds a way of combining her new walkie talkies with her [...]

A series of unfortunate events have separated your hosts for a couple of weeks, but you can see us here, reunited for the first time in a while and catching up on what we've been doing since we last met (mainly watching back-to-back sci-fi films and finding secret customs rooms at [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week Roo catches up with two very special guests - legends, no less, from the world of gaming at London's favourite 'unconference', Game Camp. Elsewhere, snacks man Dave introduces us to unexpected new breakfast options, Leila gets some sounds from under London, and we all play games (of course).

Our guest this week has been keeping a watchful eye on the Large Hadron Collider since it booted up again in March, but luckily he's very well-qualified. In fact, Jon is a Professor of Physics at UCL and via the ATLAS experiment, pushes the boundaries of so-called science over at CERN on a regular [...]