After having an email address for ten years, I finally get Broadband. The child in a sweetshop element has yet to die down.

The numerous BBC Radio Listen Again streams are a particular favourite. No excuse to miss anything half-decent on the radio now. There’s the mp3 podcasts of the intellectual discussion show In Our Time, currently holding its Who Is The Best Philospher poll, or Mark Kermode’s deliciously ranting film reviews on Five Live. For the film Palindromes, he manages to not only slag off the director Mr Solondz, but poor old Mr Brecht too. “Brechtian distance? I don’t need to be reminded I’m watching a film or play. I know I’m in the theatre, because I entered a building with the word ‘THEATRE’ on the outside!”

This week, David Mitchell, of the shows Peepshow and Mitchell & Webb, shines on Armando Ianucci’s satirical show Charm Offensive. Proof that, in the hands of experts (ie not 99% of people who write on the Internet), sarcasm can actually be the highest form of wit. He has this to say on the subject of Bob Geldof and the forthcoming Live 8 concert:

“I think he’s saying the real power doesn’t lie in the established forms of government. It lies in a man who by swearing can make credulous people assemble.”