I’m considering adding the vast archive of the BBC Radio’s uniformly excellent In Our Time round-table discussions to JURN. However, I’m unsure if these can be accessed by listeners outside of the UK? Can readers of this blog post a comment, please, if they can listen to and download these programmes from outside the UK?
Sadly the BBC uses an undifferented/gibberish URL structure for its per-programme records. Its record page for its latest show on Tristram Shandy, for instance, is at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418phf But the index of In Our Time could be indexed in a basic way in JURN, via the URL for the A-Z listing pages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/*/all (where * is a wildcard)
I was able to hear the start of 3 selected programs here in Adelaide, South Australia. They were:
Episode 3, Series 13 (oops didn’t get full details of this one)
The Aztecs(Melvyn Bragg; BBC Radio 4, Thu 27 Feb 2003)
Zoroastrianism (Melvyn Bragg, BBC Radio 4, Thu 11 Nov 2004
I tested Ada Lovelace (online) and Social Darwinism (download) from The Netherlands and it worked fine.
I was able to hear them in the U.S. in Chicago.
Thanks for the tests, people. I’ve now added In Our Time to JURN.
Just tested with ‘Zoroastrianism’. The BBC, despite its weight, fails to come in at No.1 – or anywhere near it – which suggests that the In Our Time archive pages should play nicely with the other search results.