
From the outside, it's a 1970s Roberts radio, playing BBC Radio 4. At 6pm, it provides the Six O'Clock News. Only the 6pm is Seattle-time, not London-time - it's streaming radio over the internets, tunnelled over SSH, then storing it (all eight-hours-plus) and playing it back at the appropriate timezone-adjusted moment.
It's a little surreal in action - waking up to the Today Programme in the morning, many thousands of miles west of the UK? Definitely!
I'll be posting loads of implementation notes as I write things up - I made quite a few useful discoveries on the way. Plus I'll post the (monstrously hacky) scripting I wrote to glue together various disparate utilities in a super-resilient way - but for now, here it is!