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Ah, that explains why I had a complaint from the wife that she wasn't getting new Archers episodes. (The Archers is a long running (since 1951!) BBC Radio 4 so
by nickcw 8y ago
Ah, that explains why I had a complaint from the wife that she wasn't getting new Archers episodes.
(The Archers is a long running (since 1951!) BBC Radio 4 soap opera about a fictional farming community. There are a lot of people addicted to this, including the wife.)
I had to avert this disaster as a wife with no Archers isn't worth contemplating, so I installed the BBC sounds app instead. It was my thought that the BBC pulled the content from google to get people using the BBC Sounds app instead.
The BBC Sounds app works, but it is a pretty terrible podcast app (2.2/5 stars on the Google Play store), it doesn't download and queue things, or let you order them etc.
- afandian 8y agoI've not installed it becuase they ask for my email address and post code to sign up. Why? They don't need it. If I'm listening from Europe BBC Sounds just works, so it's not a technical limitation. And the "Why do I need to sign in?" page is evasive. Why is it compulsory? What are they hiding? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/how-to-guides/sign-in/account-signin https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/how-to-guides/sign-in/acc... And this "Why" page doesn't even make an effort. https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/why-we-are-asking-you-to-sign-in https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/why-we-are-asking-you-to-s... I don't think there's some secret conspiracy. I am a great supporter of the BBC. But the way "TV Licensing" behaves (operated by a Capita) is so breathtakingly and openly dishonest and opaque, there is no trust left.
- petepete 8y agoI use AntennaPod to listen to many BBC radio programmes (not including the Archers!) and can't recommend it highly enough. Open source, clean UI, light and simple. https://antennapod.org https://antennapod.org