One of the downloadable programmes at the moment is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Future, a series of 4 programmes on the impact of technology on music, publishing and broadcasting by the late Douglas Adams.

I interviewed Douglas once by accident when I was about 13. He'd just published the first Hitchhikers Guide book and was doing a booksigning at a record store in Newcastle. I was at the front of the queue and he borrowed my pen for the booksigning, so I stayed there and asked him lots of questions while I waited to get my pen back. He was a nice man.