{"id":118,"date":"2010-10-11T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-10-11T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:03:50","slug":"has-the-bbc-changed-its-podcast-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Has the BBC Changed Its Podcast Policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2010\/10\/in-our-time.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2010\/10\/in-our-time21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-131\" title=\"in our time2\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2010\/10\/in-our-time21-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2010\/10\/in-our-time21-300x74.jpg 300w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2010\/10\/in-our-time21.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite radio programs is the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/features\/in-our-time\/\">&#8220;In Our Time&#8221;.<\/a> Every Thursday, except for a summer break, Melvyn Bragg and three varying and eloquent academic experts discuss what in Swedish would be called &#8220;id\u00e9historia&#8221;. Besides pure history, the program takes up the history of science, philosophy, religion, and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Recent programs have taken up the Spanish Armada, imaginary numbers, and the Neanderthals.<\/p>\n<p>What is frustrating is that only the program from the past week has been available as podcasts. This is especially odd as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qykl\/episodes\/2010\" target=\"_blank\">several years of programs<\/a> are archived for online listening, on-demand. Which means that anyone can play the files and record them as mp3 files. Having done this several times I can confirm it can be done, but is very time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>And programs going back to 2002 can be downloaded from the Pirate Bay. So the lack of a podcast archive on the BBC website has been hard to understand. Especially since the nature of the program means there can&#8217;t have been rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>No more&#8230;since the program&#8217;s return after the summer break all three episodes are still available for downloading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/series\/iot\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/series\/iot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this signals a change in policy at Broadcast House. It would be nice if the back archives could also be made available, but this is great news!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this signals a n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite radio programs is the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;In Our Time&#8221;. Every Thursday, except for a summer break, Melvyn Bragg and three varying and eloquent academic experts discuss what in Swedish would be called &#8220;id\u00e9historia&#8221;. Besides pure history, the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=118\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,73,71,68,69,72,75,70,74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}