By Yuan Potts Web producer

Roberts WM201 wi-fi internet radio

The box says 'listen to 6,000 radio stations from around the world'.

By the time I tried it I reckon there were quite a few hundred more than that.

The Roberts radio's clever design means the list of available stations is ever increasing, though quite why you'd want so much choice I'm less sure.

Wi-fi radio works by using your broadband router to connect to a website which lists stations from around the world.

The Roberts then sucks the data off the internet and lists the stations on its rather wee display.

The trouble is, all this information can sometimes seem like rather hard work.

And although the scroll wheel is quite effective for whizzing through the lists, if you're just using the remote control it can feel a bit like wading through treacle.

But when the novelty of east African music wears off, how does it perform when it comes to things more prosaic?

On the whole I'd say pretty well. The ability to listen back to past programmes from Radio 4 was welcome and the sound quality was reasonable, if a touch flat at times.

In a week of testing it only stopped and 'buffered' once, although I did have a few troubles connecting when I moved the radio some distance from my router.

Overall, I felt the Roberts was a very nicely designed gadget, though at 200 quid probably best suited to deep-pocketed music buffs.