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You seem to have appended the URLs, which end in the programme's uniqe PID, with a text string of the programme's name - eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/.... I'm guessing this is for some possibly misguided SEO reason.

The downside of this is that you're not redirecting from the 'old' URLs (ending in just the PID) to the new form, so there's now 2 versions of the URL which both return the same page - not great. Not only can this confuse search engines (though Google is pretty good at figuring out 'similar pages' now), but also means that sites like delicious, digg, etc can end up with two URLs stored in them, with attention divided between them.

What's worse is that you seem to be ignoring the final string altogether, so that it's possibly to invent URLs with meaningless strings, which still return valid pages, eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...

My advice would be to either go back to the old style URLs, which were shorter anyway, or to use the new-style URLs consistently, and serve permanent redirects from the old URLs to the new ones.

It's a shame that it's come to this, after you spent so much care in the original crafting of the iPlayer and /programmes URLs!

iPlayer RSS Feeds don't seem to work properly. http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bbc_ra... doesn't give me just Radio 4 comedy, it gives me what looks like every Radio 4 programme.

I got this error message when trying to give a feedback on the Bruce Parry's Amazon website.

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Is it suppose to be normal?

Hi,

I know it isn't supported, but I just thought I'd let you know your integration to last.fm that pushes now playing artist and track information seems to have died just after 5pm yesterday (note that Radio 2's never started working again, and has been broken since 18th July).

If possible can you explain why it is a bit unstable?

Cheers,
Chris

I listened to the programme 'The Essay: It's Big and It's Beautiful: The Rise of Retro Tech' (15mins approx)
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...) after it ended I shut down, when I returned to iplayer it showed last played The Essay: '17.08 / 35.56' this is obviously inaccurate as the programme is not that long! Any idea where iplayer is pulling this information from?

Any idea why 'All Bar Luke' is listed as being by 'BBC Null' in the iPlayer radio player?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4...