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I work for a local education authority, and a few days ago there was a mention of one of the local schools on one of the BBC Radio stations, I was asked to record this mention onto a disk so that it can be used by the director.

I have been on several sites to find the answer, and have so far been unsuccesful, does anyone here know of any way.

I can only use free software, and/or trial versions, the section I'm trying to record is roughly 10 minutes long.

If anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful.

Sorry HazzaTL.dont think i know,but someone here is bound to know.it may help if you mention whether it's a p.c or a mac,and if the computer has any analogue feeds.if the news item is available as a audio file on BBC news (try a google)then it could be just a matter of saving it to desktop and then burning a disc using a disc burner(i believe Nero is free)
hope you get what you need &

There is a long way round - take an output from the headphone socket on your PC, run that into a cassette recorder, then, if you have it, use recording software to transfer that onto your hard drive.

There are various streamripping programs, and a fair few free ones, but I don't know if they work with the BBC Radio Player http://www.h2g2.com/h2g2/skins/Alabaster/images/Smilies/f_erm.gif" /> I'd be interested know that myself. http:://www.sourceforge.net is a good place to try.

A brief message to all others who post here. Remember that there are certain copyright issues. Recording BBC broadcasts for anything other personal use may well be illegal, and since this is a BBC site, it would be against the <./>HouseRules</.> to condone or explain how to do something illegal.

It's an online radio feed that gets play via the internal BBC radio players. I have a PC (Athlon 1.8 ghz with 500meg RAM)

so the leads isn't needed at all. it's played via my sound card, so there must be a way to save it as I play it.

and I'd like to say that anything broadcast over teh airwaves becoem PUBLIC domain.

Then say it and just stick a footnote at the end to point out it's completely untrue.

Firstly, anything broadcast over the airwaves does not become public domain, it's subject to whatever copyright is held by the broadcaster, or the author of the work if it's a book, song, play, etc.

Secondly, the method I desccribed is a way to do this if a) you can't find a free streamripper, and b) you can find one but it doesn't work with the BBC Radio Player.

Have you tried asking whichever BBC department/local region for a copy? Might be easier to get a much better quality recording that way.

Yeah it might be simpler to go to thte horses mouth.