h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The BBC has done it again. There is a programme called World Service Music Documentary.

At the bottom it says: "UK only".

Last time I looked the "World" was a bit bigger than that.

And they complain about the Americans calling some obscure local tournament the "World Series".

(OK - I know it's about rights and stuff, but why frustrate the expats and other interested parties living abroad even more)

I took a screenshot:

http://www.dropbox.com/s/qqgz9j00ntm4kvz/Screenshot%202014-02-11%2020.35.51.png

Even more annoying when you know that many people in the UK do not pay their Licence Fee

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Are there any in the series you were particularly interested in, TC?

Drop me an email at icy underscore north at hotmail dot com

Wow - thanks. That's a lovely offer. However, when I click on the link to the podcast, I just get "you can't access this from outside the UK"


While I could browse through what the World Service has covered on its music documentaries in general, I can't look up the details of which items are in the podcast itself because it's a hotchpotch of different programmes, and the details of the podcast are presumably only available through the podcast website - see above! Vicious circle.


Further delving took me here, http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_radio_progs/mobileradio where I find out that the iplayer (should I want to stream live radio, which is probably very expensive) is not available outside the UK yet.

I did discover, however, that the iplayer and iplayer for radio have been split into two. But that any apps relating to it are exclusively for iphones. Wot I don't have. Mine's an Android.

Oh, beg pardon. It is available for Android.

In the UK only.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio/help/faq

So the only option I have is streaming the individual programmes on the PC or laptop. Better than nothing, I suppose.

As I say, vicious circle.

Sounds like an unfortunate title indeed. Perhaps you should drop them a line and give them some feedback on it. Sounds like they didn't think too hard on that one.

Like a band doing a world tour of Scotland.

Your band?

Love to. Haven't done the World Tour of Ireland yet.