The Beeb is a Great Thing, almost enough to emigrate for.

In Canada, there ain't no rugby on broadcast television at all. If you don't subscribe to a sport-oriented streaming service, world-class rugby is to be enjoyed only on the rare occasions when one is travelling in Europe, the UK or the Antipodes. When top national sides are touring in North America, it is possible to get tickets and even attend a match if one happens to live in the right places; most people (including us) don't. Only the cricket fans have it worse!

We have one of those Bose receivers that streams Internet radio. I listen to BBC Radio 3 and mourn for the CBC of my far-distant youth, when the FM stereo service (now CBC Radio 2) wasn't all slammin' tunes for the hep generation.