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I used to, as another poster has mentioned, pick up a copy whenever I flew anywhere. Now I subscribe to the audio edition, which is of a fantastically high qua
by hugothefrog 17y ago
I used to, as another poster has mentioned, pick up a copy whenever I flew anywhere.
Now I subscribe to the audio edition, which is of a fantastically high quality. Amazingly, there's more content (length-wise) that I can reasonably get through in a week of commuting, so I find myself skipping stories I'm not interested in.
Unfortunately, they don't expose their audio feed as podcast. It's available as a zipped download full of individual MP3s for each section. I've written a script which scrapes and processes it weekly and turns it into an RSS feed so I can easily consume it.
The audio really is high-quality, and their turn-around time for putting out a new edition each week is really impressive.
Every now and then their editing process slips up, and you can hear what should have been out-takes in the audio. Stuff like the speaker repeating sentences, or having a number of tries at a particularly difficult word - pretty funny, really :)