If you get a chance -

check out the current 'Friday play' on BBC R4 (available on the BBC Radio 'listen again' archive until next Friday). It is 'What I Heard About Iraq', which is a play based on Eliot Weinberger's essay in the London Review of Books, available here. It exposes a lot of bluster and bullshit.

Link of the day: historic sounds in MP3 format