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Writer for and , , who has been a guest on Pods and Blogs a number of times, is just back from visiting British troops in Basra. He collected some fascinating interviews with servicemen and women, using an inexpensive (less than £100) mp3 recorder that we sent to him - the kind of thing you could easily get in any high street shop. You can hear David's report into the continuing effort to clean up Basra's police-stations, code-named on the Five Live archive here, (fast forward about 15minutes). While the audio quality isn't what you'd get with more expensive (and bulky) equipment I think it's a great listen. It highlights the fact that there's now no longer a financial or technical barrier to creating compelling audio, the equipment is within the reach of any aspiring broadcaster/podcaster. Over the coming weeks some podcast co-conspirators and I will be producing a little guide to down and dirty audio recording. We've featured many audio pieces by listeners, bloggers podcasters on Pods and Blogs and we hope the guide will encourage more of you to send us your recordings - though war reporting probably comes under the banner of "don't try this at home."
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