The 'arse that Jack Built

Geoff Soper geoff.getiplayer at alphaworks.co.uk
Wed Oct 31 18:23:24 EDT 2012


On 31/10/2012 22:19, Don Grunbaum wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "dinkypumpkin" 
> <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com>
> To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:01 PM
> Subject: Re: The 'arse that Jack Built
>
>
>> On 31/10/2012 21:53, Geoff Soper wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> can anyone suggest how I can use the web-based UI to get the following
>>> programme?
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ljwm4
>>
>> Same as any other iPlayer programme: search for the title and then 
>> click Record next to the item in the search results.  What sort of 
>> trouble are you having?
>>
>
> I've tried Geoff's search and failed, although the programme shows as 
> available for a year on the BBC iPlayer website.
>
> However, that programme does not show up in any search results and 
> using the URL directly fails to find the PID.
>
> Some anomaly? Searching for the programme on the iPlayer website won't 
> find it which begs the question how Geoff found it in the first place? 
> The Radio 4 schedule doesn't go back that far, only the past seven days.
>
I've had the programme's page open for weeks, since it was current!

Having just tried it, Google seems to know about it and one of the links 
is for iPlayer...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The+%27arse+that+Jack+Built&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a 




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