Marc - I'm going to be a little bit more critical about this. I think you've got a slight problem about visualising your audience - which is to say that at one moment your asking questions which seem to suppose that your audience members might not be very au fait with new media and network art at all - "Can you explain to anybody who might not have heard of it what Arduino is?" - but the next minute you're chatting about things which presuppose some quite advanced knowledge of the field. If you're going to get beyond the circle of people who are already into new media art and who know all about Furtherfield, Turbulence, Rhizome etc. etc., then you probably need to be quite structured in the way you approach your subject matter. For example, as regards the interview with the guy from the V&A, I think it would have probably been an idea to start by saying that the V&A have currently got two exhibitions on the go, one called Decode dealing with contemporary digital art, and the other one called Digital Pioneers dealing with the history of computer art - and maybe a brief description of what the two exhibitions are like (like a very boiled down version of Rob's review), with perhaps a few broad comments about whether you think they're worth a visit and if so why. This stuff pretty much all came out in the course of the interview, but if I was a listener who didn't know anything about the subject I'd like a nice clear introduction to what was going to be under discussion before the discussion began: something to give me points of reference, and thus a feeling of not being out of my depth. The same goes for the MsTech item (am I spelling that right?) - I think it would have helped to say what the MsTech team were setting out to do, how long they'd been around for, where they were based or where they're operating currently, and then start the interview.
Having said this, what was really nice about the programme was the feeling of friendly informality. Your voice is a very good one for the radio, I think, because you don't sound at all pompous or up your own arse, let alone smooth and smarmy - a nice bit of John Peel-style rummaging in your papers as you went along - and some nice down to earth remarks about how much things cost, what good value the catalogues were, and all that stuff. And I also liked your choice of musical tracks, especially that first one. - Edward
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