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• Date:

  Sunday, 22 Feb ruary 2009 - 23:47 UTC

  Barry Hudson said:

  Thats great. Is it from the same people who did the fly round the UK in a jet documentary?

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 00:29 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  That’s brilliant, Ian. I’ll be home in … a month.

  Barry, I remember that! It was super, wasn’t it?

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 01:56 UTC

  Barry Hudson said:

  Can anyone remember what it was called?

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 02:50 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  My google-fu FTW

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/aerialjourneys/5334.shtml?all=1&id=5334

  not available in Australia though…

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 02:56 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  It’s called ‘Round Britain Whizz’ and there’s a neat little summary of how it was made here.

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 03:05 UTC

  Barry Hudson said:

  not available over here either…

  about time the beeb created some overseas license fee. that iplayer thing looks so great.

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 09:07 UTC

  Mike Fowler said:

  Yep – I agree: the tv show looks fab and an overseas subscription for iPlayer could be a huge moneyspinner for Auntie Beeb, while keeping expats from getting too wistful and teary eyed. If it was really successful, it might conceivably reduce the price of a TV licence for the locals. Who’d grumble about that?

  BBC give some rather vague reasons for content not being available outside the UK,

  But why am I telling you this? I’m off to e-mail the Orwellian sounding Controller General and demand my human couch potato rights!

  (P.S. whisper it’s possible to search t’interweb for sites that stream the BBC. They are ephemeral, as Uncle Beeb quickly comes after the offending sites brandishing reams of copyright law in the night)

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 15:32 UTC

  Ian Brooks said:

  I’ve not heard of that other show…looks great. Maybe NN project III (the secret one, and the podcast being I & II), could be mass-emails to the Controller General, Lord High grand Tyrant of the BBC… I’d love access to iPlayer

  I loved this line from RPG’s link

  The camera, of course, pointed backwards to avoid filling the lens with flies before the aircraft had even taken off.

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 15:40 UTC

  Barry Hudson said:

  Mike – I remember some murmurings a year or so ago about replacing the license fee for those in Britain by oversees paid subscriptions.

  Those blokes in the detector vans must have some powerful unions or something.

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 15:52 UTC

  Ian Brooks said:

  …I read that as “powerful onions”…

• Date:

  Monday, 23 Feb ruary 2009 - 16:01 UTC

  Barry Hudson said:

  …the onions would do the trick too