Free your ears for these racing productions and the bantz will follow

Listening just won't die. No matter how big the screen on your phone gets, there are things you don't need to look at. Thus radio is a survivor – unsurprising when you consider its uses.

For instance, listening to Radio 4's Today show is a good way to get back to sleep after your alarm goes off. Listening to football on 5 Live is an excellent way to pretend the ball, and some players – in reality all immobile for long periods – are constantly hurtling towards one goal or the other.

Listening to LBC phone-ins is a great way to get in the mood for kicking your radio in, perhaps ironically hastening another report of the death of the medium. First it was telly; then, cassette players in cars were going to kill off radio. Then it was the iPod. Then it was internet radio (but that's actually radio, so . . . ).