PMB050 Gold (Matt Berry/Peter Serafinowicz, Ken Nordine, Jet Harris, Benny Golson, Les Paul, Supercasanova, High Llamas, Les Baxter, Delia Derbyshire)

Well, dear listener, an auspicious moment has arrived in the history of Project Moonbase. Yes, we've reached our 50th episode of the podcast! To celebrate reaching this significant figure, we have selected a special set of tunes this week all of which have a golden theme.

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The Music

1.	Matt Berry/Peter Serafinowicz: Goldfingo from Peter Serafinowicz's Album
2.	Ken Nordine: Gold from Colors
3.	Jet Harris: Man With the Golden Arm from British Rock 'n' Roll Anthology
4.	Benny Golson: The Golden Glow from Tune In, Turn On The Hippest Commercials Of The Sixties
5.	glomag: The Ecstasy of Gold from Roland & The Lamprey
6.	Supercasanova: Waiting for the Gold from In a Space
7.	Les Paul: Golden Earrings from Les Paul Now!
8.	The High Llamas: The Ring of Gold from Talahomi Way
9.	Peter Stampfel: Goldfinger
10.	Les Baxter: Temple Of Gold from Exotic Moods
11.	Delia Derbyshire: Blue Veils And Golden Sands from BBC Radiophonic Music
12.	Billy Preston: Goldfinger from Billy Preston Selected Hits

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Peter Stampfel - Goldfinger

As a little appetiser for this week's show, which is all about GOLD (being, as it is, our 50th show!), here's the video of a track featured in the show by the mighty former Fug and Holy Modal Rounder, Peter Stampfel:

As we like to say here on the Moonbase, better than the original...

PMB049 The Robots Are Coming (The Tornadoes, Bruce Haack, Dana Countryman, Louis and Bebe Barron, Piero Umiliani, Barry Gray, Nite Jewel)

As you know, dear listener, we've been covering some of the big topics of the day in our recent podcasts. Well there are few core topics we've rather neglected which is why this week on the show we turn our long overdue attentions in the direction of those marvellous metallic moto-men (and future overlords), the robots!

Yes, every track on the show this week has a robotic theme and we also hear from some of our favourite androids including Electro, Marvin and our very own Dalek Vicar.

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The Music

1.	The Tornados: Robot from Ridin' The Wind - The Anthology
2.	John Fiddy & Sammy Burdson: Robotory from Cosmic Future Groove Vol. 1
3.	Bruce Haack: School For Robots from Hush Little Robot
4.	Dana Countryman: Ragtime for Robots from Moog-Tastic
5.	Gianni Safred: Robot Party from Futuribile
6.	Louis & Bebe Barron: Flurry Of Dust - A Robot Approaches from Forbidden Planet: Original Soundtrack
7.	Piero Umiliani: La Marcia Dei Robot from Musicaelettronica 2
8.	Barry Gray: Robot Man from Robot Man
9.	BBC Radio Collection: Marvin And The Carpark (edit) from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - 3
10.	Les Baxter: Mr. Robot from Space Escapade
11.	Nite Jewel: Artificial Intelligence from Good Evening

The Unnecessary News

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