The BBC

I know bbc are working backwards to digitize everything but it's so slow you'd think they could fish out obviously special stuff like this and get 3 months behind on newsround or whatever

The slow part of the process is rights clearance, unfortunately.

They have collections of stuff that's up for ever already, eg all these documentaries on London:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00synd3/london

And these, on postwar architecture:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01s0hpy/post-war-architecture

How do you rip these fuckers? Just tried it the google way and spent an hour purging all the extraneous malware crap that I got

You can download them on t0rrentz and then rip them using software like Nero or Toast.

I have done more research and currently recording an episode using WM recorder, if it is successful I will upload the results.

(get_iplayer will download the original mp4s which vlc will happily play (as will my tv from a usb stick). dependencies are a bit of a pain though. easier with linux...)

I tried that one earlier and had an absolute mare. It isn't downloadable from iplayer so I used WM recorder to download it is an FLV and then converted it into an mp4, if anyone is interested I will upload it as a torrent when I have done all 3 episodes.

Forget it, i dont think this shit works tbh.

Open link in new tab individually and click on download.

Fuck you BBC.

Don't do that here please

Oops sorry. I thought it might be too obscure to be a copyright infringement issue.

get_iplayer hasn't worked in years has it? as a very last resort, after trying all the torrent sites (including the ultra-secret tv one that used to be thebox dot bz) then a fairly simple but timeconsuming way is just make the video full-screen and record the footage using a program called 'Replay Video Capture'. done this a few times with the adam curtis videos on his blog that are otherwise completely undownloadable (and seem at risk of being taken down on a whim)

I use get-iplayer all the time, mainly for time-lapsing radio (because I prefer winamp to their little web based widget). The original was forked a few years ago after the bloke lost interest. And it can be a fiddle getting all the dependencies installed, especially on windows, but seems stable enough on Linux (and, indeed, still gets frequent updates)

(Time-shifting, I think I mean)

ah great, i'll get hold of that again. but yeah, Replay Video Capture is the ultimate failsafe solution for grabbing protected online video/audio, v useful

bit off topic and only of interest to london ilxors, but given recent talk of nairn some of you might be interested in this

http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/ian-nairn-poet-of-subtopia-with-gillian-darley-and-ken-worpole/

I notice Hugo Blick has a new series The Honourable Woman with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Stephen Rea, loved The Shadow Line so this looks very promising.

i did too. first ep of this was pretty good i thought. maggie g's accent is surprisingly good

I didn't like the first episode at all. No sign of any characters I'd support/like/be interested in. And that fucking kid's massive watch thing that records sound just had me rmde.

you think that now, but wait til he uses it to fool tim curry into kissing a bellhop

Playing fucking radiohead to convey sadness, fuck this this shit already. Can't watch another minute of this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/strange-hill-high

this is genuinely good, not "good for a CBBC show" good, genuinely laugh out loud good

Rona Fairhead looks set to take over:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/31/rona-fairhead-confirmed-chair-bbc-trust

I loved the Neil Baldwin biopic Marvellous. Toby Jones was excellent as was the real former Stoke kit-man Neil Baldwin. Quite good for the beeb was this, credit where it is due, it was quite beautiful actually.

heard v good things about this - thanks for reminding me xelab. going on the christmas watch list.

Hodge going HAM remains one of the most repellent sights in British politics but is the general feeling that Fairhead is dead in the water?

even aside from HSBC, fairhead's in charge of a body that everyone agrees won't be around after the next charter renewal so putting the boot into her takes about as much courage as pissing on a snail

This issue doesn't only refer to the BBC although I suspect they have stricter guidelines than other UK channels.

The BBC's coverage of the start of the general election campaign included footage of Cameron, Milliband, Clegg and then Nigel Farage, in that order. I was left wondering why Farage was considered quotable compared to the other parties including the Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein?

SNP = Jocks, PC = Taffs, SF = Paddies, Greens = hippies. Seriously though, why mention Sinn Fein when the DUP is the biggest party in Northern Ireland and, unlike Sinn Fein, sits in the House of Commons?

http://media.timeout.com/blogimages/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/map-of-uk-with-london-sized-populations-528x788.jpg

North-west M62 corridor seems best placed to submerge individual civic identities into a dystopian sprawling mega-city to somewhat rebalance UK economy and society away from London

^ achievable policies for a sensibler britain

I was left wondering why Farage was considered quotable

have you seen the man speak? he's made for TV

Usually he's just reading tabloid headlines held up for him off camera.

Why not DUP? Forgot them - they would have been next after Liberal Democrats based on the 2010 election.

every single quote in this is awful

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/27/bbc2-controller-kim-shillinglaw-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson

The reason why Mary Beard can crack a joke about Roman sex lives and – you know – penises, is because, you know what? She bloody knows her stuff about Rome.

Easy on my balls, they're fragile as eggs.

tbh when they take the licence fee off them i can probly use the extra 12 quid a month

Right-o. If someone promised to come up to me and grab me by the balls, I'd view them with extreme mistrust.

Happy egg balls day NV

o shit I forgot it was egg balls day

New BBC2 shows include Phone Shop Idol about the search for Britain’s best mobile phone salesman, Chinese School in which Chinese teachers attempt to turn around UK schools, and Britain’s Hardest Worker, about low pay.

What can you say, really?

I came across this the other night - feel that rather than "injecting emotion" into their films and "grabbing people by the balls" documentary makers would be better off aiming for this kind of considered, nuance pace, and thoughtful non-sensationalist handling of the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iPm7hUN0U

TODAY'S AGING PUNKS DON'T GOT NO TIME FOR THOUGHTFUL NON-SENSATIONALIST HANDLING GRANDAD

TELL US THE TROOOOOOTH

and BBC4, which she also oversees

explains a lot. Particularly the incessant, tediously reverent documentaries about PUNK ROCK, MAN, PUNK CHANGED EVERYTHING ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

It's not just punk it's full of incredibly banal programmes about any kind of pop music.

The Dave Clark Five one was a classic of it's kind. Produced by Clark Enterprises.