  We review the main properties, demographics and applications of binary and
millisecond radio pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has greatly
increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which have brought
the known pulsar population to over 1800. There are now 83 binary and
millisecond pulsars associated with the disk of our Galaxy, and a further 140
pulsars in 26 of the Galactic globular clusters. Recent highlights include the
discovery of the young relativistic binary system PSR J1906+0746, a
rejuvination in globular cluster pulsar research including growing numbers of
pulsars with masses in excess of 1.5 solar masses, a precise measurement of
relativistic spin precession in the double pulsar system and a Galactic
millisecond pulsar in an eccentric (e=0.44) orbit around an unevolved
companion.
