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Having interviewed Britain's first podcast who started podding in October 2004 I began to wonder when we on Up All Night first reported about podcasting. It turns out it was 11/10/2004 so the start of podcasting in the UK more or less coincided with our coverage of it. Here for the benefit of the of the future is the transcript of how we introduced the interview with Adam Curry - the presenter was World Have Your Say's Ros Atkins

Now here's a subject close to all our hearts here at Up All Night - listening to the radio. For more than a century the basics of this simple pastime haven't really changed at all - presenters like me waffle on, a transmitter beams our words across the country, and you pick us up on your radio. Admittedly you can listen on the internet and on your telly but it's still us you're listening to.But with the advent of digital technology and the explosion in use of portable mp3 players, it looks like all that could very soon change beyond all recognition.PODCASTING is the latest development... And if it catches on it could do for radio what the internet has done for print journalism... Adam Curry is the inventor of Podcasting and he told me more

And I'll post the audio once I get up the courage to delve that far back into the CD archive. I wrote the script not Ros which explains the lapses in grammar, spelling and current English usage, and yes I know the claim that Adam is the inventor of podcasting isn't right, with hindsight we should have said something like "one of the developers of etc." and given Dave Winer due credit (for a good history of podcasting ). I also very clearly seemed to think podcasting = gadgetized radio. Most podcasters would disagree with the idea that podcasting is merely radio on the web. Certainly we were still thinking in terms of "broadcasting"; the idea that the iPod would make specialist shows with a few thousand listeners viable hadn't occured to us. As I remember we were inspired by the Wired News article proclaiming The Death of Radio. But we can't claim any firsts about podcasting our friendwas actually podcasting even then - while we were and are still merely talking about it.

P.S. I've got to come clean about something daft I said in the interview with Martin of TGD - I meant to credit when we discussed the history of podcasting...but I always muddle his name up with ...but then even more embarassingly I actually said instead. Pink Floyd invented Podcasting? My train of thought came well and truly off the rails there.