Thursday, October 18, 2012

BBC Radio Drama - Radio Downloader



BBC Radio is well known for their audio dramatizations. My local library has a copy of such albums as J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings which is a classic. You can listen to BBC broadcasts on line, but they don't offer a download option (unless you want to buy an audiobook). Sometime back, Nerd of the Herd has developed a program that allows you to download their broadcasts via rss feed. So now you can download such dramatizations as Sherlock Holmes, P.D. James, Dr. Who, James Bond, The Wind in the Willows, etc. They usually only keep their programs up for seven days, but you can subscribe so that it will automatically download the albums you don't want to miss.

Focus on the Family and some episodes of Adventures in Odyssey are also available on the Radio Downloader. Just go to the rss feed page (here), copy the url  in the address bar and paste it into the Radio Downloader's rss feed. You can find a list of Focus on the Family rss feeds, here (Plugged in Movie Review, Family News in Focus, Focus on Parenting, etc).

Ravi Zacharias also has a feed available, here.

I listen to a lot of audio and I have to say, this is second only to iTunes. I don't know what I'd do without it, I am hooked on the Downloader. To get started, download the Radio Downloader, here.