(edit title) Is this being blocked by the US Can someone test it in the UK Options

[Essingen]

I am trying to listen to this programme...

SOMETHING ROTTEN IN MAYFIELD, but I suspect that tranmission out side of the UK is being blocked by the US. Can anyone based in the UK see if they can manage to hear it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=Something%20rotten

[rtharper]

Do tell, how would the US be blocking this "transmission?" Jamming signals, perhaps?

[Essingen]

No idea, but someone I know was trying to listen to it on a radio based system and it just said "this cannot be broadcast for legal reasons".

[Johno]

BBC iplayer can only be used inside the UK. The BBC block it. I have just however listened. Just like when in the Uk I cant watch a number of STV progs which come up with "This material is, for copyright reasons, blocked geographically and available within Sweden only..."

[rtharper]

No idea, but someone I know was trying to listen to it on a radio based system and it just said "this cannot be broadcast for legal reasons".

Indeed. And what does this have to do with the US?

[Essingen]

BBC Iplayer Radio can be accessed anywhere. Only the TV is restricted to the UK.

Well obviously the US doesn't want US residents to listen to an investigative programme on their criminal system...and may well have threatened the BBC with legal action

[Jamtjim]

Perhaps it is Trowie's quantum banana lasers which are interfering with the signal and blocking the transmission. It must be an attempt by the CIA to frame him for a murder he didn't commit as revenge for him surviving his mysterious (and purely imaginary) poisoning.

That would be my guess, but I have absolutely no proof of this fantastic claim nor any real reason to believe it. Won't let that stop me asserting that this must be the only possible explanation though...

[Yorkshireman]

BBC Iplayer Radio can be accessed anywhere. Only the TV is restricted to the UK.

Not always so, sometimes even the radio content has been licenced only for broadcast in the UK. Which would explain why they say for legal reasons.

[Puffin]

You need a UK proxy server to access BBC iplayer

[Essingen]

Not for radio you don't. Haven't any of you tried this?

[Johno]

Since by observation the i radio is using exactly the same transmission system as for the TV progs, just with a static picture, they can use the same regional blocking technology as they use for the TV progs, IF they choose to. Perhaps some one could try the link above AND another program that should be ok and report back ?

[Bender B Rodriquez]

Not for radio you don't. Haven't any of you tried this?

It says on their webpage that not all radio programs are available abroad.
Why not just send a mail to BBC and ask them?

[byke]

just tried it with this VPN and it worked fine

[Essingen]

Yes, this is the solution...they have blocked just this specific radio programme and it will be a job for my expat shield this evening. Given the content of the programme though, my feeling is that they should either be so certain that it is factually acurate that they are not frightened for US legal action or, if they are not certain, it shouldn't be broadcast anywhere...

"In August 2000, in Mayfield Kentucky, 19-year-old Jessica Currin was brutally murdered. When the local police failed to find her killer, a local woman, Susan Galbreath contacted veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold and asked his help in solving the crime.

Mangold, off work with a knee operation and bored, became intrigued by the story and flew to Mayfield, a dry town in the heart of America's bible belt, to work with Susan. Together the odd couple worked tirelessly from an ultra-modest room in a motel frequented by Hells Angels and interstate truckers, determined to crack the case. Within ten days it had become obvious not only that the local police had completely failed to mount a proper investigation, and charged an innocent man with the murder, but that the real identity of the killer was reasonably well known on the street. After two weeks, the couple handed their evidence to the Kentucky State Police, and both waited for results. But nothing happened. The police didn't act, the culprits weren't arrested, and the killers remained free. Why?

In "Something Rotten In Mayfield" Tom returns to Kentucky to tell the remarkable story of how he and Susan finally got justice for Jessica and reports on how some detectives, mired in scandal, could not or would not solve the crime on their doorstep."

[Essingen]

just tried it with this VPN and it worked fine

Thanks.