Thanks to the hundreds of page viewers and the four (!) of you who have commented. I have had some lovely comments by email, even requests for further recordings.
Because I want to keep the ball rolling, and because he is a spectacular reader with access to a sound studio, I've asked John Beaton for Podcast II. Hear his Spotlight Poet recordings, and check out our interview in the latest Able Muse.
http://www.ablemuse.com/v8/index.html
And if you missed the YouTube he linked on Burns' Day, it is NOT to be missed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1K4xmdukq8
Caveat, John's Address to the Haggis is in such Broad Scots, that the Hayes and I are probably the only Sphereans who can follow him, and that only because we have it memorized! So google the text, and have it at hand. I'm sure his Standard English podcast will be a little more comprehensible.