Damn it. I listened to the whole thing..

Well done. Very much enjoyed the interface

This is crazy good. Both coherent, and consistently pretty believable, and the two songs in the episode I listened to were actually nice to listen to.

Getting the songs good, or the coherent script, or the TTS quality individually would already be good, but getting the full package so seamlessly consistent is amazing.

So far I'd say the only very minor weakness is that some of the narration is too emotionally flat. For the host, that mostly works and fits the nature of the kind of soothing radio host voice you'd expect from this kind of show (but slightly more excitement, or change in tone when changing subject would be great to prevent it from just becoming background I tune out), but it doesn't quite hit for the ads which are often over-the-top excited on radio.

But that's an incredibly minor nitpick. I've heard radio programs far worse than this on actual radio stations.

Please, please do a more extensive writeup of this (or release the code, though I fully understand if you intend to keep this to yourself). Heck, release the writeup as an episode :)

I could really see this turned into something to let users design a profile for a custom show, blending in a summary of news and media specific users care about.

@dang, if you see this, only 8 points for this post in 20 hours is criminal - if anything deserves a round in the second chance pool this is up there...