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For One Week Only: King James Bible

Posted on January 11, 2011 by cpjobling

2011 apparently marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. To mark the occasion, the BBC made a bit of a splash last week with a sequence of three forty-five minute documentaries fronted by James Naughtie … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the Week #6: Digital Planet

Posted on September 6, 2010 by cpjobling

Digital Planet from the BBC World Service was one of the earliest podcasts that I picked up when I got my first MP3 player — which wasn’t an iPod! I’ve been listening to it every week for several years and … Continue reading →

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Podcast of the week: #3 Thinking Aloud

Posted on August 11, 2010 by cpjobling

Thinking Aloud, a long running BBC Radio 4 show, is a weekly discussion of the latest research in social science. It might seem an odd choice for a lecturer in engineering. But since it’s been a Podcast, I’ve been hooked! … Continue reading →

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More on BBC Mobile

Posted on August 8, 2010 by cpjobling

On the theme of mobile web accessibility (#thereisawebappforthat) I did some more exploration of the BBC’s mobile (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile) web site and discovered that there is a mobile version of iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer which streams video in MP4 format suitable for … Continue reading →

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Sharing Shirley because the BBC wants me to…

Posted on October 25, 2009 by cpjobling

The BBC encourages the sharing of this video from Dame Shirley Bassey’s recent appearance on the electric Proms. So here it is, with the “Girl from Tiger Bay” (which Shirley is of course) composed by James Dean Bradfield, who’s playing … Continue reading →

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BBC iPlayer for all: sign the petition

Posted on July 12, 2007 by cpjobling

You may have heard about the BBC’s plans to release iPlayer which will allow license fee payers to watch BBC programs on their computers. Unfortunately, the system is targeted at Windows and uses Microsoft Media Player and Digital Rights Management … Continue reading →

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The view from here

Posted on June 28, 2007 by cpjobling

Seen in today’s Guardian is news of the impending July 27th release of the BBC’s new content-on-demand iPlayer. Unfortunately, acording to the article and Guardian blogger Bobbie Johnson, it won’t run on Vista which adds it to a growing list … Continue reading →

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