BBC Podcasts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/04_april/14/pod.shtml

You can get 5Live's Fighting Talk and Radio 4's In Our Time already, though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/fightingtalk_podcast.xml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/mp3/podcast.xml

doh, beaten

Now I've just got to figure out what to do with a page of XML...

The few podcasts I've listened to before I just downloaded and mp3.

XML automatically 'pushes' the files as they become available, to my PC, right?

You tell the client which feeds you want to subscribe to (ie. paste in the XML file URLs) - it'll retrieve the mp3s for you as they become available, and load them into iTunes automatically.

Tom - I assume the chances of us getting the Beeb's specialist music shows as podcasts are slim to Chinese Democracy?

Presumably it's a legal nightmare - there's a big difference between offering the record industry's property as permanent MP3s rather than 'listen again' streams. God knows I hate DRM, but if something like Janus (the Microsoft system used for Napster2Go's music 'rentals') would allow me to listen to Mixing It on the tube then I could accept it.

Significant music radio podcasts aren't going to happen anytime soon cos it's a legal minefield built on an old indian burial ground in Bagdad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4447557.stm

But where are they?
Why can't the BBC tell you a vital piece of information in a news story about themselves???

But the WHOLE article is about itself!
They just don't tell you the one small piece of info yuo actually need to know for there to be any point to it whatsoever.

I've been listening to the BBC In Our Time history podcast a lot, and in addition to it generally being good, a notable thing is that it always seems to feature at least one if not two female historians and give them time and space to speak, and they're not typecast either (like having the female historian who is the "cultural historian" or something).