Roger Waters appears as Kirsty Young's "castaway" on BBC Radio 4's legendary Desert Island Discs on May 29th at 11:15am. It is a forty-five minute programme, where the castaway selects their favourite music, book, and luxury item, to make life on a desert island more bearable. It is repeated the following Friday (June 3rd) at 9am.

BBC Radio 4 can be heard on FM and DAB radio, digital cable, satellite and freeview, and via the BBC website where they have the excellent "Listen Live" and "Listen Again" facilities, allowing you to hear the broadcasts for up to seven days following transmission.

Desert Island Discs is also available for download as a podcast via this link - they have extensive archives of old DID shows, including David Gilmour's 2003 appearance, which you can hear in full.

UPDATE: Download the 35MB podcast of Roger Waters on Desert Island Discs through this link...

Rolling Stone have just interviewed Nick Mason on the historic scenes at London's O2 Arena last week, when David Gilmour and Nick joined Roger Waters during his Wall show there.

Nick, who made a return visit to the O2 Arena last night to watch the show again, revealed his surprise last Thursday. "It hadn't ever been quite finalized – there'd been talk about maybe playing in Paris or something else, so it was very nice to get there and see that [David] was there". He added: "It was really nice to be sort of part of it and to show support for Roger, not that he really needs it. I suppose it's nice to have Roger wanting to register David and myself as part of it, in a way. It was sort of a mutual thing: it was nice to be recognized but also very nice to lend support to Roger and make it clear that we're not sort of punching it out in these auditoriums. We're not critical of him doing it."

The full interview provides a fascinating look at their thoughts, and the preparations for the guest spots. He also plays down the possibilities of future repeats of last Thursday night, or even a full scale reunion. "It was a very nice thing to do but it could become a bit cliché if we kept climbing to the top of the Wall and kept hugging each other onstage. I mean, I think enough is enough. I mean, we're English after all. We don't do that hugging thing a lot."

In part coinciding in with the massive Pink Floyd release programme recently announced, the PinkFloyd.com website has just undergone a dramatic overhaul. With a raft of new sections, running from News through the band's history, the designs, the music, and more, there's already plenty to discover on there.

Focusing more on the release programme though is WhyPinkFloyd.com which has loads of information on the different editions that will be with us from September. There's also a news feed app on the home page of the site which draws from a couple of decent sources!

Both have a link to Facebook.com/PinkFloyd which is sure to become a good source of day-to-day information and opinion - and a place where fans are able to provide their thoughts and feedback, so worth visiting.

The official Pink Floyd Youtube channel has also just been started up, and will be another destination you'll want to bookmark/favorite/store as over time it should become a treasure trove of great videos. To kick things off, they've posted a look at the upcoming Dark Side Of The Moon immersion boxset, and also official videos of Roger Waters' May 12th concert at the O2, with David Gilmour on Comfortably Numb, and Outside The Wall, with Nick Mason as well. See below for both of these, but be warned if you are trying to avoid seeing anything from The Wall tour, prior to attending your own chosen date, as they are full of spoilers!

MusicRadar.com have just published the results of a survey of musicians and rock fans, declaring Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon as having the "Greatest Album Cover of All Time". Storm Thorgerson's deceptively simple and striking image was just one of a number of the Floyd's cover which featured in the poll.

Beating Nirvana's Nevermind and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's into second and third places respectively, the Floyd also feature elsewhere in the top 10, with 1977's Animals. Will Groves, editor of MusicRadar.com, said: "The Dark Side Of The Moon is conclusive proof that one simple, enduring image is the winning formula when it comes to album artwork, particularly when it's harnessed to such an iconic musical work. Any of the top 10 would have been worthy winners but the Floyd cover is a welcome reminder of a time when sleeve art meant much more than a jpeg a couple of hundred pixels wide in your iTunes library."