No Rock And Roll Fun

PEEL ON YOUR POD?: The BBC is making moves into MP3, trialling downloadable versions of this year's Reith Lectures in a take 'em and whack 'em form. If the experiment works, the broadcaster might move on to making more of its archives, including seventy thousand million billion session tracks (by The Fall alone) available for people to take away and do what they will with them. The usual riders are in place, of course, that it all depends on sorting out the copyright mess and so on, but even so: just being able to waltz off with the Archers on your Rio would be a start.