Where to find old episodes of In Our Time?

February 4, 2007 7:31 PM

Does anyone know of an archive of the BBC program In Our Time?

I started listening to these last year. Really like the program. Kind forgot about it over the last 3-4 months because they didn't have anything new for a long stretch. Now I've discovered I've missed the last 15 or 20 programs.

And they do not seem to keep more than one program accessible at a time. They are listed on Yahoo's podcast service, but Yahoo just seems to link back to the BBC's site.
Anything older than the latest episode at Yahoo's site goes to a dead link.

I've also checked archive.org, but they don't have anything newer than mid-06 that I can find.

posted by aerotive to computers & internet (6 comments total)

This may or may not be legal depending on where you live, but uknova currently has packs for 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006.
posted by fvw at 7:54 PM on February 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

There are RealAudio versions of the current series of programmes on the BBC site; and depending upon your OS and preferred player, there's a way to turn those streams into audio files. The MP3 podcast becomes unavailable 7 days after broadcast because of the BBC's archiving rules.

[fvw: what's the first rule of UKNova?]
posted by holgate at 9:20 PM on February 4, 2007

Fvw, thanks for the link but they're not doing signups at the moment. I'll continue to check back.

Holgate, my OS is XP. I just use the OS to download and then load them onto my portable MP3 player, which is an old Samsung model. I rarely if ever listen to them at my computer.

Can you give me a recommendation on a Windows program that can transform those RealAudio streams into mp3 files?
posted by aerotive at 5:11 AM on February 5, 2007

aerotive, I believe this is what you're looking for.
posted by Busy Old Fool at 6:13 AM on February 5, 2007

aerotive - Send an email to my MeFi address and I'll send you any In Our Time's you want from the past year or so.
posted by bshort at 7:50 AM on February 5, 2007

This program exists in podcast form, which I download via iTunes. Marvelous program, BTW.
posted by shifafa at 1:48 PM on February 6, 2007