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Old 12-30-2009, 07:38 AM   #1
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Rise of the E-Reader - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ow_29_12_2009/

This was on BBC Radio 4 yesterday (I think iPlayer is UK only, sorry!), I haven't listened to it all yet. Anybody else listened to it?
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No, but I will do! Thanks for the tip.
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Old 12-30-2009, 08:14 AM   #3
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Well I enjoyed it. One bit that I found funny was 'sand and salad cream', I personally have never found any such products in my paper books We need more authors like Hillary Mantel for one.
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Old 12-30-2009, 08:28 AM   #4
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I think iPlayer is UK only, sorry!
IPlayer TV is UK only. The radio streams are global.
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I listened to it in The Netherlands.
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Old 12-30-2009, 10:42 AM   #6
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BBC World Service ran it the other day. Caught it on the air, good story.
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For what it's worth - the streams are *not* global; there are issues to do with transmission rights, particularly for sports or music shows which prevent their distribution outside the UK. That said, *most* radio is distributed globally - though a non-UK user doesn't get *quite* the same stream as the UK listener in some cases. Very little TV is available outside the UK.

(I spent a year working behind the scenes on the iplayer launch last year).
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Old 12-30-2009, 12:10 PM   #10
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Google "get_iplayer" - it's a tool which allows you to permanently save iPlayer stuff.
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Google "get_iplayer" - it's a tool which allows you to permanently save iPlayer stuff.
Thanks for that, Harry. I'll give it a go.

I generally use Total Recorder (from www.HighCriteria.com) to "tape" an iPlayer stream so that I can listen to it later when I don't have an Internet connection (for example, from my iPod when I'm on the train). From what I can see of Get_Iplayer, it could be a bit easier to use.
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It's got a zillion options, but it does work very well indeed. I use it to save stuff for my iPod, too. Its benefit is that it's not "real time" - it just downloads the whole thing and converts it to MP3.
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Another option for Mac users is iPlayer Downloader. Google it.

Also, for Usenet users, there are a couple of newsgroups that carry BBC radio broadcasts
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