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Series catch-up for speech-based radio programmes is here
Andrew Caspari
Editor's note: from the BBC Radio blog, great news for lovers of Radio 4 series - SB Ever since 2002, when we started offering listeners the chance to hear radio programmes on demand via the original Radio Player, listeners have consistently asked to be able to catch up on all the episodes of s...
News for online listeners using RealPlayer
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Editor's note: this blog post is by Mark Kortekaas (BBC Audio & Music), Ian Myatt (BBC Nations & Regions) and Karl Kathuria (BBC World Service). I'm 'cross-posting' here because I know a lot of Radio 4 listeners still use RealPlayer to listen online - SB At BBC Radio we try to deliver the best ...
Desert Island Discs comes to iPlayer
Mark Damazer
It is a grand moment to get Desert Island Discs (DIDs) on the iPlayer. We have always had good relations with the family of the programme's founding father - Roy Plomley - but the programme was conceived in a pre-digital age and so we needed to work out with the family how to make the programme ...
Series catch-up for Radio 4 programmes
Sarah Prag
Yesterday something small but significant happened. Instead of disappearing from iPlayer when its 7 days were up, the first Episode of The Complete Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold stayed put. Which means that you can go back and listen to it before listening to Episode 2. The unusual...
Bringing old favourites to life: illustrating Radio 4 drama
Ashley Stewart-Noble
A while back I posted about why we use illustrations on iPlayer for key radio programming (on the BBC Internet blog). In short we want to avoid galleries of largely unknown faces which don't really hook the listener as much as a well-executed illustration. When we come to illustrate dramas whic...
