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Re: [LUG] Radio Times

 

peter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was glancing at "All your TV and Radio Questions...Answered" in the
> above publication (12 - 18 July)(sad person!).
> 
> A reader was (quite rightly) bemoaning the fact that a programme had
> been delayed 40 minutes due to Bl..dy Wimbledon, so his recorder missed
> it.
> 
> A BBC spokesman "pompously" replied "dah dah dah ...Anyone whose video
> recorder missed the start could see the drama on BBC iPlayer for the
> rest of the week".
> 
> Surely to do so requires a broadband connection, and a windows operating
> system?
> 
Or Linux. BBC iPlayer works just fine for me (Kubuntu Gutsy).

> Perhaps someone more eloquent than my self could pen a (light hearted)
> reply (If I am correct).
> 
> By the way I have written a email to Classic FM in the past, praising
> their programme, but complaining I could not listen with Linux.  I got
> the standard automated reply (our engineers will get back to you in the
> next few days) then.... silence.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Peter L-J
>    
> 
> 


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