Posts Tagged ‘The Pallisers’
Of course it’s great to be able to listen to scheduled radio programmes and not forget the time and most broadcasters repeat the programme several times .
But nevertheless, the fact is that quite often the programme will be scheduled at an inconvenient time.
Maybe you’re away, maybe it’s late at night something like that. Or maybe you are just too busy.
So what can you do then?
Well, if you look at certain broadcasters – the BBC is a good example – you’ll find a listen again possibility.
On almost all the radio programmes broadcast by the BBC there is the opportunity to listen again.
That is, the programme is kept for seven days and you can listen to it any time you like, over the seven days.
There are all sorts of copyright reasons for not keeping it longer and I’ll be coming some of those later.
But nevertheless, it means that within any period of seven days, you can listen to a lot of programmes when you want, and there is even one BBC service, which is entirely devoted to listening on demand like this and, unsurprisingly, it’s called Listen Again.
Here’s the address.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/
Now, you can see the possibility let’s go to the BBC Listen Again and you’ll see that you can choose any time within the last seven days and then you’ll be given a programme schedule.
And these programs you can listen to whenever you want.
So let’s take as an example an episode of the Pallisers.
the famous novel novel by Anthony Trollope.
Now, you can listen to this episode whenever you like, you can simply click onto the icon to listen and you can do this at your convenience.
On the other hand, you could also schedule it in just the same way as we did for the streaming radio.
For this is simply go to the icon, click on the right button of your mouse, and choose “Save Link As”.
You can save this file to your desktop
and then any time that you like, over the next seven days, you can just click on that icon to listen to the programme or you can schedule it to play at a time that convenient for you, just to make sure that you don’t forget.
This listen on demand service from the BBC gives you more flexibility when it comes to listening again to your favourite programmes.
