Silenced!
I’m afraid I misled a few people when I said last week that the full version of my interview with Shereen Nanjiani for Radio Scotland was accessible globally on the BBC website. Honestly I thought it was, for in the past I’ve been able to access radio material in Spain post-broadcast, but from what friends in Australia, the US and Canada are telling me it isn’t available. I can understand why television drama screening might be restricted to UK IP addresses, but I’m disappointed and a bit puzzled to find that this applies to news magazine radio programmes also. The BBC is about to launch an international version of its iPlayer, so maybe this anomaly will be corrected when it happens. I can only hope so, for honest, folks, I’m as frustrated as you are.
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Part of the problem is European. You can’t legally get UK Sky or much BBC, TV and Radio, in Italy, and I believe (officially, anyway) other EU countries. I-player lets you get some post-broadcast, as you say, but every so often it’s ‘not available in your country’ and then you have to call in the hacking team. I wonder how you manage in Spain
You can’t legally get any UK tv in Europe, other than the World Service, which is shite. Likewise the iPlayer. However, my friend Bob (another Bob,not him) says there’s a way of kidding it on that you have a UK IP address. As I say, the international version is coming soon, but I can only imagine it’ll be heavily restricted. It does strike me as ridiculous that in a European Union which gives freedom of movement and employment to the likes of the crap footballers who have fucked up the Scottish national game, and no doubt others, the satellite television signals are still restricted. In practice, most of the British ex-pats in Spain have a UK Sky or a Freesat box. I dunno if the footprint would reach Italy tho’.