problems downloading certain BBC radio 4 programmes

[Peter Selley]

Is anyone else having issues downloading certain BBC radio programmes
using the pid=bXXXX --type=radio method? For instance this week's
episodes of Soul Music and the first part of the drama "Left Hand of
Darkness", both listed on BBC iplayer site, and both generating pid
nos, are not downloadable using this method. I reverted to this method
since neither programme is listed on the feeds, which seems an
increasingly common occurrence, perhaps owing to the way the BBC is
handling the site. I have noticed the problems others have been
encountering with some tv and radio programmes.


The pid no for "Left Hand of Darkness" is b05pkqkl.

Here is what I get trying various options from the linux command line
using get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22:


peter at XXX~$ get_iplayer --pid=b05pkqkl --type=radio
get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

INFO: Series pid detected
INFO:    Series: 'The Left Hand of Darkness' (b05pkqkl)
INFO:      Episode 'Episode 1' (b05pkpgg)
INFO:      Episode 'Episode 2' (b05qynrl)
INFO: Please run the command again using one of the above episode PIDs
or to get all programmes add the --pid-recursive option
peter at XXX ~$ get_iplayer --pid=b05pkqkl --type=radio --pid-recursive
get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

INFO: Series pid detected
INFO:    Series: 'The Left Hand of Darkness' (b05pkqkl)
INFO:      Episode 'Episode 1' (b05pkpgg)
INFO:      Episode 'Episode 2' (b05qynrl)
INFO: Trying pid: b05pkpgg using type: radio
INFO: Trying pid: b05qynrl using type: radio
peter at XXX:~$ get_iplayer --pid=b05pkpgg --type=radio
get_iplayer 2.92-ppa22, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

peter at XXX~$

Thanks for any pointers. Peter