Having got WiFI working and also basic sound, I directed Firefox to the BBC Radio site in order to wrestle with what I anticipated would be big probs in getting the BBC Radio Player to work on "Skippy" (the PC I found in a skip, on which I have loaded 5.8 Standard).
To my amazement, it worked immediately without me doing anything other than clicking on the station link

I shouldn't push my luck, but a minor gripe : when I hit the "5 minute >>" button (to skip ahead 5 mins) it doesn't work (and the cursor goes into Linux egg-timer equivalent mode). Anyone know how to fix this ?