I just assumed that since you advised running Windows in a VM, you
might know how to make it burn CDs. I have no problem burning from Linux. I use
Brasero, because I had way too many niggling little problems with KDE. Yes, I
know you can run K3B from Gnome but you must install a very large part of KDE to
do so, and that, too, caused problems for me.

The burning problem is that Car Talk (a radio talk show about cars) can only be
burned from iTunes, (damned DRM) which runs only under Windows or Mac. When I am
running Windows under VirtualBox, I cannot get iTunes to recognize the DVD
burner.