iPlayerRadio (finally - and sadly) has changed!

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Wed Feb 12 18:00:43 GMT 2014, I wrote:

>Today I am finding that
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio
>now redirects to
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
>exposing the new interface to the radio part of BBC iPlayer.

 Thanks to Paul Williams' latest post,
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/get_iplayer/2014-February/005418.html)
I've discovered the following related BBC Internet Blog entry (uploaded Mon 
Feb 10th):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/BBC-iPlayer-Radio-the-place-to-go-for-BBC-Radio-online

I've only browsed through the first 20 comments (out of a total of 128 at 
the time of posting),
all of them are echoing my dislike and vast shortcomings of the "new & 
improved" Radio Homepage
(... and there was again mention of the ill-fated RadioDownloader app, 
forced to self-mutilation by the beeb;
they plan to offer DRM'ed audio downloads in the end of spring...).
 Yet another inane change forced upon users just for change's sake - much 
like the Australis re-design (scheduled to
hit the release channel on Fx 29.0) forced me to adopt Firefox 24.3.0 
ESR...To quote this article:
http://www.eleganthack.com/user-dont-hate-change-they-hate-you/

"Users hate change that doesn't make things better, but makes everything 
have to be relearned"

V.