The BBC is almost certainly removing the parts of the episodes that may upset listeners of a certain persuasion,
-Dave _______________________________________________ "First they came for the statues, but I was not a statue so I did nothing..." On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 09:26, Chris Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to rationalse what's going on in Brit. comedy re-airings on > iPlayer. Judging by the rubbish that goes under the name of 'comedy' > today how dare they mess with our old-time classics. > > This year and last year the Beeb has been re-airing series 8, 9 and 10 > of the Navy Lark at 320 kbps. Previously all we had were poor versions > at 64 kbps. > > However bearing in mind the increasing left wing PC bias of the Beeb, > so many Brit classic comedy programmes have had the tag ' shortened' > in the metadata. This nonsense started in about 2019. Why? > > Hancock, I'm Sorry ..., Ken Dodd, Steptoe, Harry Worth, Yes Minister, > are only a few of many others affected. All have random episodes that > have been tagged 'shortened' > > Here are examples from The Navy Lark: > > 14/02/2019 20:32 72,104,643 The Navy Lark - S07E03 - > Mr_Murray_Is_Victimised_b00lmqts_shortened.m4a > 15/02/2019 00:58 72,587,480 The Navy Lark - S07E05 - > Captain_Povey_Reports_Sick_b00lqzs5_shortened.m4a > 27/02/2019 15:23 71,904,930 The Navy Lark - S07E07 - > Let_Loose_with_a_Chopper_b014tpqj_shortened.m4a > 29/03/2019 18:13 71,462,532 The Navy Lark - S07E09 - > The_Mysterious_Pudding_Mine_b0151xwx_shortened.m4a > 29/03/2019 18:14 71,583,260 The Navy Lark - S07E10 - > The_Hovercraft_Training_Course_b015frjy_shortened.m4a > 09/05/2019 14:02 68,407,730 The Navy Lark - S08E03 - > Gumming_Up_The_Works_m00051vc_shortened.m4a > 09/05/2019 14:01 68,729,516 The Navy Lark - S08E04 - > Buoying_Up_b0082hrd_shortened.m4a > 16/05/2019 13:51 68,086,410 The Navy Lark - S08E05 - > Charitably_Taking_Part_b01sjs44_shortened.m4a > 23/05/2019 14:06 68,448,179 The Navy Lark - S08E06 - > Drifting_Through_b007vkkg_shortened.m4a > 31/05/2019 14:13 69,654,487 The Navy Lark - S08E07 - > Blowing_Themselves_Up_b007k108_shortened.m4a > 07/06/2019 15:45 71,189,112 The Navy Lark - S08E08 - > Buying_Tickets_b007s848_shortened.m4a > 21/06/2019 14:39 79,580,157 The Navy Lark - S08E10 - > Pertwee_and_the_Tratvian_Beer_b007k2gt_shortened.m4a > 02/07/2019 15:13 67,885,818 The Navy Lark - S08E11 - > The_PM_Papa_b007s84c_shortened.m4a > > All of the other eps aired from S08/09/10 have been tagged 'original' > - which is obvious. > > But what is going on? > > Cheers - CJB > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
