FAO BBC: Same Series and Episode, Differents PIDs and Description.

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Thu Mar 8 05:27:51 PST 2018


On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:02:30AM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> There's been much weirdness recently in get_iplayer's tv.cache due to
> what's being published by the BBC AFAICS.
> 
> The latest example, I have some older more complex ones to write up, is
> PIDs b09wc2m1 and b09wbylq are both S02E01 of _The Repair Shop_, but
> with different descriptions.  The `short' one is
> 
>     b09wc2m1: Antique photography expert Brenton West repairs a camera
>     that survived World War I.
> 
>     b09wbylq: A Boulle-work clock, a much-loved wheeled elephant and a
>     300-year-old desk are in the shop

My assumption would be that they are different versions of the same
episode, with one cut for length for eg a repeat.

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