Wandering iPod

[tealin]

Earlier this year, my faithful companion and beloved entertainer passed into disability: the first-generation iPod Nano which I'd received for Christmas in 2006 stopped talking to my computer. Tried changing the USB port, and the USB cable, to no avail ... I've replaced it with a slightly newer one which is doing well, but the old one is still functioning perfectly aside from the inability to update it, and has a lot of good stuff on it, so I'm reluctant to throw it away, and that gave me the idea of The Wandering iPod.

Here's how it would work. If you'd like to listen to the 4GB of quality audio, either comment or send me your email address. I will make a list, contact Person 1 to get a mailing address, and send the dear little thing in the mail; when Person 1 is done with it s/he lets me know and I get them in touch with Person 2, to whom they send it on, and so on. Now, this would all be on the honour system because I have no way of policing the participants, and it would be dependent on each person to hand off the iPod instead of, say, losing it at the back of a drawer somewhere, but if we could get it rolling this could be a really fun thing and an interesting permutation of the 'sharing economy' or whatever they're calling it.

The contents of the iPod are

AUDIO DRAMA
Cabin Pressure - all four series, including "Molokai"
The Arkangel unabridged Othello
The Worst Journey in the World, the radio play that got me into all the Scott madness in the first place, which has never left my iPod since I recorded it.
Audio tracks from the DVDs of:
- The Globe's Henry IV Part 1 with Roger Allam as Falstaff
- The Hollow Crown adaptation of Richard II starring Ben Whishaw
- the really awful DVD a thieving blaggard made of the ISC's 2007 production of Hamlet – this was less for its integrity and more as a tiny crumb to jog my memory of the play as I saw it live, but if you want to hear a ridiculously abridged artefact of the best Hamlet ever, this may be interesting to you.
- Simon Schama's Shakespeare in 2 parts (technically not a drama but it has really great monologues; you can only find this though the 'Albums' menu)


PODCASTS

The Best of Natural History Radio (BBC)
- Arctic Terns at 66 Degrees North
- Lepidopteran Winter
- Islands of Ice and Fire
- Grey Seals of Blakeney
- Ocean Governance

Beyond Belief (BBC)
- Ahmedi

Day 6 (CBC)
- January 16, 23, 30, and Feb 13

Documentary of the Week (BBC)
- John Tavener
- How to Teach Maths

File on 4 (BBC)
- Flooding: Best Laid Plans?
- Cut-Price Care

Friday Night Comedy (BBC)
- The News Quiz, 14 Feb

From Our Own Correspondent (BBC)
- Feb. 8, 13, 15

Ideas (CBC)
- The End of the Dial (the evolution and future of radio)
- The Unsinkable Silken Laumann (Olympic rower who came back from severe injury)
- Catching the Game (sports and their power over us)

In Our Time (BBC)
- Chivalry

Radio 3 Documentary (BBC)
- Vernon Watkins (Welsh poet)

The Sunday Edition (CBC)
- Feb 16

The World Tonight (BBC)
- Catholic leader condemns government welfare changes


MUSIC

Jake Wilson
- All's Well

Sarah Slean
- The Baroness
- The Baroness Redecorates
- Orphan Music (a few tracks missing)
- Land and Sea

Loreena McKennitt
- In Praise of Christmas

The Independent Shakespeare Company
- The Cuckoo and the Owl - songs from Shakespeare set to original music (folk/indie acoustic)
- Red Barn - selected songs from their fantastic original musical

Forest Mountain Hymnal
- Fitcher's Bird - Appalachian-style Halloweeny songs

Strada
- Kadou - very old Christmas folk songs from around Europe

Boston Camerata
- A Medieval Christmas

My Family's XMAS Tape
- as seen here; some slight overlap with A Medieval Christmas

Laudate Singers
- Celtic Journey

Simon and Garfunkel
- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
- Sounds of Silence

George Winston
- December

Erik Satie
- Pièces Pour Piano performed by Yuji Takahashi

Random Bits:
- "The Lobster Quadrille" by Franz Ferdinand
- "Il faut que tu saches" by Fred Pellerin
- "The Doctor's Wife" and "The Watchmaker's Apprentice" by Clockwork Quartet
- "Lacrimosa" from Zbigniew Priesner's Requiem for My Friend
- "The Long Long Trail" by Charles Chilton (so you too can have WWI songs stuck in your head every living day)

As I said, the iPod functions well – it plays everything it's got, the buttons all work, and I'd swear it holds a charge better than my new one – but there is a fault on the screen which looks like some liquid crystal cells got crushed and then leaked in either direction. It's smaller than I drew it and the menus are still readable (in fact, being so used to it, I often don't even see it) but it is a flaw. I will send it with its magnetically closing leather case so it won't suffer any more damage.

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