Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

This great skill from the BBC now brings us the ability to listen to any radio programme from every national and local station on demand - augmenting the existing option of streaming live any BBC station or checking out their full compliment of brilliant podcasts. Many apologies to everyone without the blessing of the much beloved Beeb.

Packed with helpful and informative hints and tips to manage (or avoid) diabetes, today's skill may well be of particular benefit around this bountiful, festive season.

Today's first skill brings us a radio station full of good Christmas-related tunes from different decades, whilst the second is a nice playlist of festive songs with a similar feel. Both brilliant.

Will Patrick Steggle ([email protected]) infect you with his enthusiasm for this zombie apocalypse-themed audio adventure skill? Would you want imoortality … … … at any price??

Wally went to a yoga instructor and asked if he could have lessons. "How flexible are you?" asked the instructor. "Well, I can't do Wednesdays or Fridays," replied Wally…

Hear me having an heroic attempt at becoming a maths hero - but just ending up being a bit of a doofus. I guess that me and maths just don't add up. Better luck having a go yourselves, if this skill is available wherever you are.

You may be smarter than me, but are you smarter than Patrick Steggle ([email protected])? Are you?? This is the skill to help you find out.

Both of today's skills are brilliant and both are by Button Push Apps. The demos have been sent in by one of its developers; Nick who, BTW, also hosts a podcast called 'Alexa Skills Review' (do search for it in your podcatching app - it's great) and who, BTW2, also kindly created and posted the daily flash briefing version of this very podcast (you can find it by searching for 'D 2 D' in the skillstore).

Incredible as it might be to believe, I haven't actually seen this film. I know. It's totally unlike me to demo a skill that requires some rudiment of knowledge on a subject before making anything other than a completely ham-fisted attempt at demoing it. And it wasn't even an heroic attempt either.

Who's back? Patrick Steggle ([email protected]), that's who - bringing us two more brilliant word-related skills to scramble our brains.