New radio PIDs, more than 8 characters

[RS]

>From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 03:45

>> The Al Gore one is now p05c2b9j
>> (snip) The changes may be temporary.

>... Yes and no... If you browse to:

>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016tl04/episodes/player

>you'll see there exist two distinct entries for "Former US Vice President 
>Al Gore on Climate Change": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vg029mkl852
>(which looks more like the proper episode page) and 
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05c2b9j

Curiously the duplication is only on the Available now tab.  The All and By 
date tabs only have the version with a 15 digit w1 PID and future programmes 
also have a 15 digit w1 PID.

Looking through programmes added to get_iplayer's cache I can see quite a 
few World Service programmes from the past few days with w PIDs.  I haven't 
yet seen any podcasts with PIDs other than p0 (not that I have looked hard) 
and podcast PIDs are usually fairly similar to iPlayer PIDs.