This is incredible! I can’t wait for them to get up and running with this. The article ponders exactly how much of their content they’ll be able to put up:
Let’s hope they can get the licensing issues cleared up, because the BBC sure has done some great stuff over the years. I was particularly impressed by the miniseries Traffik, the five-hour long inspiration for the U.S. movie “Traffic.” I ended up having to buy the DVD after seeing the first four installments play on Sundance, then missing the fifth. Then there were those BBC Planets documentaries I downloaded in a not-so-legal fashion a couple of years ago. Interesting stuff.
Anyway, just wanted to relay this really great news to you guys in case you missed the story. Those of us who find it difficult to pull ourselves away from our computers now will probably need heavy machinery to budge us once this thing gets online.
The BBC lawyers might have their work cut out for them and even when that’s out of the way the scale of the task will be monumental. More about this was discussed in this recent thread:
That’s what I want, the radio show. I’ve heard a few bits and pieces but I’d really love to get a feel for how the radio show went.
You know what? This could potentially be a huge boon for file sharing networks. The argument has always been that the bulk was for pirated works but if suddenly you pour a large amount of free-to-use marterial which p2p could use. And helping to take the burden of bandwidth away from the BBC and distribute the burden all around.
Well, all I really want is to make a CD of the whole “Whose Line” series to listen to while I play old squaresoft games.
Fotos had borrowed tapes of the original BBC show - something like 20 hrs worth (he worked with a guy from England who lent him tapes from BBC shows). He said the only thing missing from the ABC version with Drew Carey is the “beautiful Samantha”.
He also said that the best BBC show he ever heard was “Around the Horne”. He said he used to listen to them in the car while he was driving home from work, and would always have to pull over during the “Julian and Sandy” segments so he wouldn’t have an accident while he was laughing!
Fern Forest: It may be worth checking out the BBC 7 homepage every now and then. They stream the broadcasts over the internet which you hear via RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.
The “beautiful Samantha” idea was lifted from another radio show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, which is well worth listening to if you get the chance, especially if you like WLIIA?. If you see British Dopers playing a game called Mornington Crescent on the SDMB, that show is almost certainly where they first heard it being played.
That show was before I was born, but part of the joke was seeing how much they could get past the censors, and apparently a lot of the “Julian and Sandy” stuff was in a gay slang called polari.
The BBC already keep an archive of current radio programmes, which you can find at the level above Kal’s links.
Let’s hope they can get the licensing issues cleared up, because the BBC sure has done some great stuff over the years. I was particularly impressed by the miniseries Traffik, the five-hour long inspiration for the U.S. movie “Traffic.” I ended up having to buy the DVD after seeing the first four installments play on Sundance, then missing the fifth.
traffik, like whose line is it anyway, was originally broadcast by channel 4 in my recollection, so tat prbably wont be on there either.
