No Rock And Roll Fun

CLUNKY HANDOVER, DEAD AIR: It's good to hear that the BBC is showing even more commitment to its Radio Player, although a lot of the updates to the system merely allows listeners to use the player like the normal real audio player, and most committed BBC Radio fans online have long since been harvesting the stream address and pasting it into their player anyway. But we're a little surprised that in order to manage the handover, it's taken the service offline for 24 hours.

Still, a lot of the programmes which up until now haven't been archived will be (including, unfortunately, Vernon Kay) so it should prove to be worth it in the end.

In other BBC archive pleasure - as part of the Newsnight 25th anniversary celebrations, you can enjoy once again Mark E Smith on the Peel memorial programme. Remember: his Mum thought he was "very self-assured."