GiP and working abroad

[Chris Woods]

On 16/11/2024 12:22, Chris Woods wrote:
> On 16/11/2024 08:18, Nick Payne wrote:
>> Another option is to use SmartDNS (eg Getflix) to make it appear that 
>> you are in the UK. NO VPN needed. Works for ITV as well.
>>
>> https://www.getflix.com/
>
> FWIW, I VPNed to New Zealand (I'm in the UK) and tried the World 
> Service in a browser - worked fine.
>
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service (etc.)
>
> I believe all/nearly all radio stations podcasts should work either in 
> the Sounds app or web site regardless of country, just at a slightly 
> lower audio bit rate, you'll be served the "nonuk" streams.

Also, sorry for forgetting this before replying initially, James 
Cridland's site "livenow.news" is a multi-service player which uses 
commercial streams provided by other organisations. He appears to have 
found a stream URL for a US variant of BBC World News, also working fine 
on my VPN, so I guess that stream is not yet geofenced.

Open https://livenow.news in a browser and click on the BBC News logo, 
it should start playing. You'll need to toggle subtitles off as that 
stream includes them, look for the three-dot menu button in the 
bottom-right corner of the video player and disable the Captions menu. 
Currently working fine while VPNed to NZ.