According to various news sources they just changed robots.txt. I can't confirm that myself right now. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282436/bbc-podcasts

According to various news sources they just changed robots.txt. I can't confirm that myself right now. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282436/bbc-podcasts-google-assistant-home-block https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282436/bbc-podcasts-goo... EDIT: Here's the robots.txt file: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/robots.txt?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2019-03-25 https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/robots.txt?utm_source=podn...