I had a random friday afternoon thoughtfart while listening to Paul Morley/Strictly Kev’s 1hr remix of ‘raiding the 20th century’.
Listening to Morley‘s* cultural history of the cut-up on top of Kev’s sonic critique made me think how cool it would be to hear Melvyn Bragg and the "In our time" gang’s thursday morning ruminations on, for instance, Machiavelli – cut-and-pasted over mashed-up madrigals.
Putting this fancy to one side for one minute… it made me think of other superlayered participatory critique and knowledge construction – the Wikipedia.
If there were a transcript of "In our time" (is there?) why couldn’t that be munged with wikipedia like Stefan did with BBC news… and what if then new nodes were being formed by Melvyn, his guests and his audience – together, for everyone, every week, and cross-referenced to a unique culutral contextual product – the audio broadcast.
The mp3 of "In our time" sliding into the public domain and onto the internet archive’s servers, every thursday rippling through the nöösphere reinvigorating the debate in the wikipedia, renewing collective knowledge.
"In Our Time" is great ‘campfire’ stuff – you have The Melv as the semi-naive interlocutor and trusted guide, the experts as authority to be understood and questioned… but it’s only 30 minutes and 4 people… what about scaling it way out into the wikinow?
How good would that be??!!!!
Of course a first step, a sheltered cove, would be to set up "In Our time" with their own wiki for Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle / Pepys diary style annotations of the transcript and mp3..
The Melv’s own multimedia mash’d up many-to-many mp3 meme machine.
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Update: over the weekend, Matt Biddulph showed another example of how powerful mixing BBC web content with web-wide systems might be: with del.icio.us tags extending BBC Radio3’s content. Fantastic stuff.
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p.s. from a Bio of Morley found at pulp.net:
"Morley
earns a farthing every time Charlieâs Angels, Full Throttle is shown or
trailed, owing to his contribution as a member of the Art of Noise to
Firestarter by the Prodigy, which features a sample of the Art of
Noise’s Beat Box, used in the film. The pennies are mounting up."
Petafloptimism 
I thought of something like this ages back.. ok let me rephrase that, i thought of nothing as well formed as this (even remotely), but before i eneded up working at the bbc i enjoyed listening to to GLR and Robert Elms’ Notes and Queries, to the point of emailing in and suggesting that they put together some sort of archive of all this London archania..
Now what we need to be able to do is hilight part of an audio stream and add it into the wikipeadia space.
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There is a collection of IoT transcripts at the After Our Time wiki:
http://www.afterourtime.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Transcript