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We have already done a whole show about robots (PMB049 to be precise) but it's quite hard to keep them down and so we welcome our future overlords back for a second bite at the cherry. There's music from behind the Iron Curtain, robot music from Central America, two chiptune tracks about our metal friends, electronic music arranged for human beings and a track from an album which some (ie: DJ Bongoboy) think might almost be mainstream.

It's time to pop open the filing cabinet and leaf through some of your favourite faxes, dear listeners, as we bring you a show celebrating the exciting world of office life. We have lots of pumped-up executive library music, a track which will help you to produce an awesome PowerPoint presentation and even some positive affirmations you can use in your day to day life.

Switch the oven on and get your peelers ready, dear listener, as we bring you a show dedicated to those hearty members of the plant kingdom, root vegetables. Thanks to Space Disco Jeff for suggesting this week's theme which has resulted in us digging up a cornucopia of musical goodness.

Time to catch up with some new releases and reissues on the show this week, dear listener. We have a couple of selections from what we hope will be an ongoing series of reissues of the Bruton Music Library by Dutton Vocalion. Hot on the heels of Bombay Disco volume 1 comes volume 2, from which we have a track. Our favourite documentary series about Hitler's time in an American high school, Danger 5, has released a 100-track(!) soundtrack album. There's also a brand new/old track from Soulless Party, some Italian library music, the latest release from Field Hymns and we finally catch up with the new release from the Advisory Circle as well as one side from the latest 7" by Tim Gane's latest project.

A potentially highly dangerous show this week dear listener as we embrace two of our great passions: pylons and power stations.Our high voltage selection includes celebrations of various forms of electricity, as well as a cautionary tale about the use of a cyclotron.

Put your headsets on, dear listener, and prepare to record this week's show for training purposes as we bring you a show all about telephony. We've got theremin, sax-sational library music, telephone-inspired music from around Europe, inter-dimensional mento and the most extraordinary cover of ELO's Telephone Line we've ever heard. There's also an exclusive new track from up-an-coming talent DJ Bongoboy (no relation).

It's time to climb into your spandex onesie, strap on some studded leather braces and put on a pair of highly polished chrome slippers as we bring you our long-awaited all-METAL special. We have alternate versions of metal classics by the likes of Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Guns 'n' Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Slayer* as well as metal interpretations of music from other genres, in particular the world of video game music. The show closes with some of the most blistering ukulele playing you're ever likely to hear. (* yes, we know, not all of these are strictly heavy metal bands but we are, frankly, proud of our lack of knowledge in this area)

Wishing all of our listeners a very Happy Xmas, Hanukah, Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, Winterval, Festivus, Chrismakah, Kwanzaa, Moon-Kwanzaa and Decemberween. Yes, for this week's show we've pulled together musical celebrations for as many types of mid-winter festival as we could, including several that don't even exist.

Join us in the giant silver geodesic Presentation Dome, dear listener, as we present awards to some of our favourite reissues and new releases from the last 12 months. We'll post a full list of all the awards on the website over the coming days. If you think we've missed anyone out, you will tell us, won't you?

This week's show comprises a star-studded line-up of thespians, philosophers, bards and boffins who variously demonstrate the power of the spoken word. The idea for this week's theme came from listener Dolly Dolly David Yates. It seems to have uncorked a rather rich supply of possibilities, one which we will definitely return to in the near future. But one question remains, dear listener, is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?

Get your fingers loosened up, dear listener, as we bring you a frenzied fiesta of bongo drumming. Having said that, as you will discover, in the right hands the world of the bongo can in fact be a seductively smooth experience. This week's theme was suggested by listener Randy Poe, who was responsible for the splendid Gene Rains reissue earlier this year which prompted heated debate on the show. We encourage you to try playing along with the tracks in this week's show, though we have to ask ourselves, will you be able to keep up?

It's time to polish your conductor's baton, dear listener, as we bring you an all-classical edition of the show. Featuring work by Borodin, Bach, Beethoven. Mozart, Grieg, Dvorak, Schumann, Wagner and Debussy, arranged for Moog synthesizer, big band, disco symphony orchestra, Kollywood singers, a cappella voices and rock 'n' roll band.

It's time to catch up with some of our favourite new releases and reissues on the show this week, dear listener. We have a couple of tracks from one of the terrific compilations being put out by Bob Stanley on his Croydon Municipal label. There's also retro-futuristic music from Ethiopia and Nigeria, theremin jazz from Austria and the first tangible release from friend of the show, Concretism to name but a few. We would like to heartily thank everyone who phoned the PMB hotline last week to leave a message for our 200th show - and also those of you who voted on our duelling duals. It's taking a while for our super-computer to carry out the complex analysis of the results but we'll bring these to you in the next week or two.

Well dear listener, that moment has arrived - we have reached the 200th edition of Project Moonbase! We would like to take this opportunity to mop away a tear and thank all of our loyal listeners who have stuck with us over the years, through yodelling and whistling. We would like to particularly thank those of you who were kind enough to suggest tracks for this edition of the show - and also those who respond to our invitation to call the hotline with messages of support. For this week's bumper edition of the show, we have paired up some of your and some of our favourite tracks in a series of face-offs. We leave it to you, dear listener, to decide which is the better version using an increasingly unmanageable collection of hashtags. We think doubling up tracks like this works rather well. The question is, do you agree?

It's time to purse your lips and blow, dear listener, as this week on the show it's all about the brass. Yes, we have everything from trumpets to tubas, trombones to French Horns and we even have a bit of jazz flugelhorn. We're also delighted to welcome back to the Moonbase for one week only our London correspondent Space Disco Jeff. We've been experiencing some technical issues with our collection of glitter balls so we called him back up for their annual maintenance. We're glad to report that they're all fully operational again.