On Monday night Imagethief did an interview with Chris Vallance of the BBC Radio Five show "Pods and Blogs" discussing the computer game "Incorruptible Warrior". The game was recently released by the Ningbo city government as a means of getting anti-corruption messages out to youth. Imagethief has some doubts about the effectiveness of computer games as an educational or propaganda tool, and you can hear them in the interview, which is about six minutes long. (RealAudio link -- open it in a standalone player and listen from 1:39:00 in.)

You can also download a podcast of the whole show, but it's about 25MB.

I hadn't written about "Incorruptible Warrior", so a hat tip to ESWN and my friend Sumner Lemon of IDG News Service, who were the sources of much of my basic information on the game. I had previously written about "Learn from Lei Feng" and "Anti-Japan War Online" and other Chinese message games, as well as America's own propaganda and Army recruiting game, "America's Army".

I last spoke to Radio Five on the weighty topic of Beijing's efforts to make its taxis less smelly, although that interview is no longer available online.

If you are as in love with sound of Imagethief's voice as he clearly is (Imagethief worked in radio for a while), you can also listen to Robert Ness' latest China Businesscast on Danwei, in which I comment on, you guessed it, the Olympics.