World Service Radio Archive prototype
October 13th, 2013
UPDATE 14/3/17: It was an experiment. They put the archive up for three years then disconnected it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/worldservice-archive-proto therefore what follows below no longer applies.
Today while searching for details of a programme recorded on cassette over twenty years ago I came across the World Service Radio Archive prototype. It is necessary to sign in but having done so you will be treated to a small archive to search, which is available to hear, and some of which is possible to download with a little manipulation.
On reaching the page of interest you can listen to the programme by clicking the arrow provided, and in addition if you right click the page to View Source and then search for mp3 you can right click the link and Save As thus downloading the programme to your computer.
Owen Hatherley: A masterpiece on why we are where we are
October 3rd, 2013
“Labour local authorities’ increasing fixation with ‘decanting’ their council housing, in combination with their unwillingness to do anything about the rising rents and house prices that first gradually then sharply expelled their core vote has created the utterly bizarre situation of a party that, as Andrew Coley, a housing campaigner in Leeds, puts it, ‘gerrymanders against itself’.”