You can currently legally download BBC radio programmes to your pc during a trial period.  Just wanted to ask if anyone has tried to do this with a 'listen again' show?  One I wanted to keep is due to be overwritten tomorrow and despite several attempts, I just can't seem to capture it on my pc.  It downloads something but not the actual programme.  Any ideas?

You can't download the listen again on to your PC but I suppose you could plug in a cassette recorder to your headphone socket & record it that way

You can only download certain programs via the BBC download page

What a shame but thanks for clarifying that MM. 

I just took a quick look at the website. The one Listen Again show they had posted can be saved a couple of ways. There was an email option so you could email it to yourself. There was also a standalone real player option; you can right click and choose Save As to save the file on your PC. There might also be a copy of the media file in your temporary internet files. There usually is.

Hi Lori

One Listen Again show , there are loads Lori  - which site were you looking at?  Did try the email option but you just get sent an email containing a box saying click on that to listen to the show, ie nothing you can save. Did a lot of right clicking and saving as yesterday but didn't get anywhere :P.  Haven't tried looking at the temporary internet files though - I'll try that next.  Thanks. :)

I think you will find nothing works been there done that :(

Errrrr, I download listen again programmes as part of my work every day of the week! Perhaps you don't have the right software?

You shouldn't be as they are all BBC copyright programmes-unless of course you have a licence to download them from the BBC

Yep ;) educational establishment with an ERA licence :)

Then you will have appropriate soft ware for downloading, but members of the public are not allowed to download anything other than the ones via this link it is actually a criminal offence to download & save any other programmes

Is that the same law which makes it illegal to save any programme to video and keep it?

Yes although a blind eye is turned to recordings made for private use those made for public use if discovered have a hefty fine attached & advertising that you do this on a public forum is not very clever-especially when you have inoformation that means you can be identified

I sort of assume that this reply was aimed at me?

Firstly, I have said that I do it under licence as part of my job. You said it couldn't be done, all I did was say that it could, I haven't even said how ;)

Secondly, I believe it was you, who on a public forum, has suggested copying the programme using the headphone socket.... breaching exactly the copyright laws that you are so proudly professing knowledge of :)

No, we just know how to do it ;)

I've given up - just wasn't meant to be!