When The Word Podcast changed over to "subscriber only" a while back I discovered a few older editions of the podcast that I had never heard. I gleefully downloaded them to my phone and enjoyed listening my way through most of them until I got to the the last few. For some reason they all stopped part of the way through, at no regular point (some after just a few minutes and some close to the end). In all cases I shrugged my shoulders, put it down to experience and corrupted files then moved on to the next episode. However, yesterday I was particularly enjoying episode 115 which was a hilarious edition marked at just over an hour long and featuring Danny Baker, and so when that stopped after 27 minutes, with DB in mid lyrical wax about the King Crimson re-issues, I was too disappointed to let it drop with just a shoulder shrug. This morning I've downloaded the episode from the archive onto my PC and tried playing it through desktop media players. Windows Media Player didn't recognise the format for some reason, but both iTunes and Spotify played the file yet only recognised it as a 27 minute episode, leading me to the inevitable (although not necessarily correct) conclusion that somehow the archive files have been truncated.

Has anybody else come across this problem and, if so, did you find a solution or simply arrive at the same conclusion as me? More importantly can anybody point me in the direction of a link to a full version of Word Podcast 115 because I NEED to know why the King Crimson re-issues are essential purchases!

Thanks.

Steve.

When's the new podcast (202) going to be turning up on iTunes? It's been available on my Word app since, I think, Friday night but no sign of it on RSSRadio, which is how I usually listen. Is that right, or am I having some sort of technological malfunction?

Just a podcast recommendation: Coverville - http://coverville.com/ - a regular podcast of good/interesting/unusual cover versions, often themed, an amateur production but like a professionally-produced radio programme.

Of the many music podcasts I've tried over the years this is the only one I've stuck with, not least because it is divided into 'chapters' for each song and each link, so if there's a song which you don't want to listen to any more of, you can skip forward to the next one (it's the only music podcast I've come across which does this, I don't know why more don't).

My subscription is coming up for renewal and after careful consideration my love affair with The Word is over.

It's lasted since Issue 1 and it is the podcast decision that's done it.

I don't agree with the reasoning of it being time consuming, the people involved always seem to enjoy it.

In hardened times, it has isolated the retail trade, created a two tier readership and most importantly of all made me realise that we aren't a merry band of brothers in a Word related fantasy world

The glib initial defence of the decision fanned the flames with the likes of if you don't think its good value fair enough

Over the top, petulant, rash, naive, living in a dream world, it's none of those things.

It's how I feel and feeling as I do its what I want to do.

The Word has lost a constant promoter of both mag and the podcast, but all good things come to end.

I feel it'd be hypocritical to continue on here so this is bye bye.

My stance may be the only one of it's kind, I don't care, I can vote with my feet and I am.

I will invest the money in something music related.

Thanks for the great trip.

Bruce Archibald (ex drummer of Ski Patrol/The Wall) listening to the podcast whilst irrigating in Northern Victoria, Australia

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Bluesbunny.com is a Glasgow-based website devoted to promoting new and undiscovered artists from around the world. It's not all about the blues, despite what the title suggests.

The latest ‘Under the Radar’ podcast features an interview with Matt McGowan, editor-in-chief at the site.

In addition to talking about the perils of trying to promote small gigs by obscure overseas artists, Matt offers some interesting views on the local (and international) underground music scene.

He also introduces us to some very fine artists, including Matt Collar and the Angry Mob, Brigid Kaelen, Louise McVey and the Cracks in the Concrete, Suzanna MacDonald, The Ballachulish Hellhounds, Super Adventure Club and Chris Dovsky.

Discerning listeners are sure to find something of interest.

If this has been done before, I apologise. It's difficult to know though, if you search "podcast" on this site, lots of stuff comes up, oddly enough.

Anyway, I've recorded a podcast for a website I write for and it's now, quite literally, out there. I'm keen to get it onto iTunes and according to these guidelines, it actually looks easier than I thought it might be.

However, the thing I'm stuck on is where to host it. Currently, it's on Soundcloud, which I don't think will be any good. So, does anyone have experience of hosting podcasts and what sites would you recommend? Overall, I'm looking for something that's cheap (free, preferably), reliable and, if possible, provides stats on number of downloads etc.

Much obliged.

Can any members of the massive help? I download a number of podcasts every week but for some reason the Word podcast seems recently to take over an hour to download. Is there something I'm missing? Has something changed? (Everything else is the usual speed).

I started listening to Trevor Dann's Radio Academy podcast after I enjoyed his appearance on the Word podcast last year. It's about the radio industry, and you might like it.

I realised after listening to it for a couple of months that I would never listen to an equivalent podcast about 'the tv industry', which helped me to realise that my relationship with radio is very different from my relationship with tv, which I hadn't really thought about before.

Also, as I was catching up with back issues there was much discussion of the travails of DAB radio, and it made me wonder if DAB is to radio what APS was to photography - a new, better system which was going to move the industry/technology forward but which was then crushed by an even greater leap forward: is internet radio going to steamroller DAB in the way that digital photography did APS?

This reminds me a tad of the Word podcast as it's nothing more than three chaps and a woman sitting around chewing the fat. One added advantage for me is that three of them (Eddie Piller, Paolo Hewitt and Martin Freeman) have DJed at my little club night http://www.rocknrollsoul.co.uk). It's Eddie Piller's Modcast, and touches upon music, movies, fashion, books and allsorts. A very entertaining hour.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modcast-eddie-piller-friends/id409149...

A good long chat and session, sorry don't know what number it is but here's their URL - http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSoundOpinionsPodcast
it's cunningly titled 'Sound Opinions with Teenage Fanclub'.

I've been catching up on podcasts after a long interval of being unable to sync an ipod and was chortling away to the recent one with Robin Ince talking about bad books when I was outraged to hear ME slimeing the reputation of an author he hasn't read.

I suppose it's because Georgette Heyer is so very popular and has been in print continuously for so many years that her name sometimes trips off the tongue of an ignoramus looking for the name of an average writer of romances or even bodice rippers. She was not.

Her books are elegant, witty and intelligent - some genre romance readers find them unsatisfactory in the romance department as there is little by way of overt passion. Ok, it's entertainment fiction, not great literature, but it's very good entertainment fiction. She can be criticized for elitism as her world is relentlessly upper class. Others find it hard to cope with the wealth of unfamiliar terms... wisty castor, nankeens, reticule for instance.

Before criticising, try reading one. I'd suggest "The Foundling" (1948) for ME as one of the stars is a grubby schoolboy with whom he might empathize. If you don't laugh out loud at the backward race, I wash my hands of you. And really, there's hardly any romance....

* I know ME claims to be a luddite, so if necessary Fraser, I'd be very grateful if you could pass my comments on to him!

Have just downloaded all of last weekend's mini podcasts from itunes and they seem to have disappeared into my library and arent housed with the rest of the Word Backstage or regular podcasts. Anyone help?

I have managed to get through my life so far without owning an i-pod, but have recently given in and and got one, mainly because I'm sick of listening to everyone else's on the bus on the way to work. Now I have one, I am keen to rectify a second omission from my life, namely, I have never previously listened to a Word podcast.

I downloaded the Danny Baker one last week and enjoyed every second of it. However, I now realise I have an awful lot of catching up to do.

So, where should I start? I'd be enormously grateful for your recommendations as to which Word podcasts I should listen to next.

only just subscribed to this new effort by the ex uni prankster /satirists but it sounds quite promising

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/the-chaser-launches-air...