Presumably, the fact that the selection is untouched by human hand and has been programmed for the easier kind of listen explains the fact that anything you don't like doesn't hang around long enough to irritate you; it's possible to listen round anything you don't care for and be pleasantly surprised to look up and note the name of anything that catches your fancy.
"We had been sitting around listening to Round the Horne on the radio, as everyone did, when my neighbour stuck his head round the door and said, 'Ooh, I think you might be interested in this!' " This was a copy of Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet's hallucinatory tale of drag queens, pimps, murderers and sailors.
This ends weeks of bitter rivalry between the Simon Cowell talent show and its upstart rival featuring Will.i.am and Jessie J. Here's MediaGuardian's round-by-round assessment of the rivalry (best read while listening to this): Round 1: The BBC cries foul after ITV brings the launch of Britain's Got Talent forward a month to the same night as The Voice.
Labour needs to be seen to be improving our public services, or Tory jibes that a pregnant Blair still has not delivered may be more closely listened to next time round.
The recording illustrates the group's recent evolution: the tenor and early-music scholar Louis Botto, who founded Chanticleer in 1978 and served as its conductor, died in 1997 (one of his final recordings, Sing We Christmas, is one of those rare holiday albums good enough to be listened to all year round) and was replaced by one of the group's altos, Joseph Jennings.
He saw his doctors and nurses as they visited him during their daily rounds; he listened to the conversations of his carers; he heard his mother deliver the news to him that his father had died.
I've been driving around in my motherly red van listening to Selena Gomez's "Round and Round and... .. over and over again.
The song may have dated – it feels a bit like listening to, say, Round the Horne on Radio 4 Extra – but after 45 years it remains funny.
After listening to a round of passionate opening statements, I got my own turn to practice, using the hypothetical questions I had tried out in Gaza.
I'd secretly had this feeling I wanted the film not to be about driving fast or stunts but about a guy driving round listening to music because that's the only way he could feel.
