Through Lockdown I and Lockdown II (The Revenge), our family have been sitting down at dinner and doing a quiz posted on Twitter by @forwardnotback. Today’s highlight was being reminded of the Mike Flowers Pops cover of Wonderwall. I have started listeni...

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The BBC make all of their podcast programme information available as an XML file. Literally five minutes of XSLT gives me this: http://philwilson.org/code/bbc-podcasts.xslt $ xsltproc bbc-podcasts.xslt <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/ppg....

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After a couple of years of using uncountable tools, and despite their ever-expanding list of podcasts etc. I think I’ve finally hit the perfect combo for downloading those Radio4 “listen again” RealPlayer files or entire streams f...

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All next week, Jon Snow will be reporting from Iran. According to Krishnan Guru-Murthy, “You’ll be able to check up on Jon’s progress by following his blog which you can see on our website at channel4.com/iran and he’ll also be pos...

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I like the idea of podcasts. There are some I even subscribe to: LugRadio, Ricky Gervais, Mark Kermode’s film reviews and now

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I don’t really listen to podcasts normally LUGRadio and sometimes IT Conversations, but that’s about it. But now I need a podcast client. I have an RSS file containing about 200 items, each with an mp3 enclosure and an empty title element (yes, I know, thanks). I want to be able to add this feed to a client and download all the items. Not 10, or 20 or select every single one and t...

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