AudioGO

When Red & Blue returned to the Afternoon Drama slot in August, I googled the series to find out more. I'd heard and loved the first episode of the first series via Play of the Week but I'd thought it was a one-off rather than the first of a series. I was determined to track down more information. What I found was much more than that, I found:

http://www.audiogo.com/uk/

 I've no idea how it took me so long to stumble upon a website dedicated to selling BBC dramas, comedies, audiobooks and just about every other variety of download that you can imagine. I'm surprised and a little ashamed of my own ignorance of such a fantastic site.

I quickly lost hours in searching for interesting dramas and comedies and working out exactly which episodes of McLevy and Pilgrim I'd missed. The range is fantastic and I can't imagine that any radio fan would be stuck for choice. Downloading is straight forward and it was easy to get copies onto both my laptop and PC. There's some sort of points system going on but it's not very well explained and that really is the most negative thing I can say about AudioGO.

In case you're interested, my purchases so far have been:

• Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Glastonbury Special
  Genius, can't think that I've ever heard it repeated on 4Extra
• Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Geht Zum Fussballweltmeisterschaft Weg!
  I'll confess to copying that title, as above
• Red & Blue Series 1
  Very good, though the first episode remains the best in my opinion
• Avoid London, Area Closed, Turn On Radio
  An Mike Walker Afternoon Drama set around the 7/7 bombings.
• Coalition
  Interesting premise of a politian under pressure of blackmail
• Brief Lives Series 3
  Very welcome background listening ahead of the recent series, if only they had some of the earlier series
• Pilgrim Series 2
  And suddenly series three made much more sense
• And miscellaneous McLevy
  Excellent, as always

That said, there are some disappointing gaps in the catalogue. I'd love to see more early series of some things (Party Series 1!) but it's hard to complain in the face of such a fantastic range. Do yourself a favour and take a look, there will be something there that you'd like to hear again or missed the first time round. 

Oh, and did I mention? It's all at affordable price. What's not to love!