Seen this in my mailbox a few times today, sure you will all
find this interesting...
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Make the
primary operating system used in state schools free and open source
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/
I find this idea
And yet they will end up on a newer Microsoft operating
system at some
point. ;-)
Right - if they really stayed put with what they have, then
they'd still be using Acorns. Which probably taught kids more
about computer science than the XP machines in use today ;-)
So, rather than
Although this rant is impassioned and detailed it's almost comically
misinformed. What's happening in education IT(C) is the imposition of a
£45bn corporate cash cow called Building Schools for the Future (BSF) -
through which the government is shamefully entering into yet more PFI
relationships.
Sorry for those who can't quite figure out what I'm quoting and what I'm
saying myself in my previous email, when I converted to plaintext I forgot
to add in the appropriate quote marks.
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How as a FOSS company are you going to maintain a
well-staffed callout
team and helpdesk if the software you are providing is essentially
free?
Why is that a problem? My companies have never had a problem
charging for support for Free Software. All software needs support.
You
bits and bobs snipped
Note I'm not affiliated with these groups, nor am I a
teacher, just showing that working, LEA-or-bigger SaaS *is*
being delivered because of that better resourcing.
It warms the cockles of my very being to hear that some organisations can
get it right :) I wonder how
My former housemate who lives in Cornwall (near Stithians) has an Orange
phone - only network he said he could get service with where he lived. Of
course YMMV - never been down as far as Cornwall myself :)
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Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which
we owned all the rights to and wanted to distribute widely.
Not just video, but images, sound, subtitles, metadata about
the programme scripts, etc.
How would you
1. Package it?
2. Distribute it?
3. Licence it? (this isn't
Were we reading from the same crib sheet Andy? ;)
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I've just got Freesat HD, and it's amazing to see the best picture
quality that the BBC broadcast. But then they go and spoil
it with a
DOG in the corner. It's almost worth reverting to watching
the program
on BBC 1.
If they must have a logo, do it with MHEG and enable the
exit
The site does have a fairly hefty CPU toll when you first load it, and the
whole interface is pretty sluggish. (but I am using IE6, natch) After it's
settled down though, it's fine ;)
What riles me more is that they don't have a mobile-friendly version of the
site! They still syndicate static
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It wouldn't be so bad if the DOG was at the corner of
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Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC - a typical Google search on a desktop
computer produces about 7g (0.25oz) of carbon
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computer produces about 7g (0.25oz) of carbon
Some of the ones in Birmingham are... But only usually replaced when the old
ones burn out or get broken (which I fully agree with, no point emitting CO2
driving round and replacing every single one when they still work perfectly
- the don't-replace-old-cars-with-new-cars argument).
Which
I've noticed that BBC One's online stream has a BBC One DOG on it, the same
going for BBC Two. Isn't this one of the most impractical applications of a
channel graphic ever? (and a waste of bits)
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Nice to see this...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/10/digital-radio-radio
As long as they don't get rid of birdsong... There might be a small revolt
if that happened
Nice to see this...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/10/digital-radio-radio
As long as they don't get rid of birdsong... There might be a small revolt
if that happened
Isn't that just a long running ad for Twitter? ;-)
That's a chirp joke.
I'm 23, so that puts me on the edge of the Y Generation (those who've
always had technology around them as they've grown up).
I wonder when was there a generation that didn't have technology around
them as they've grown up?
I've always like Clay Shirky's idea that technology is stuff that
I wonder if highly shuttered video produces better results on
TVs that do motion compensated 100Hz stuff. E.g. if you
delivered them 25p but with the shutter open for 10ms rather
than 40ms, they will be able to make a much better job of the
motion compensation, producing something very
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13th December 08
Come on, Manchester and London isn't a bad
Hi All
Just *bumping* the Backstage Christmas parties as tickets are
being snapped up fast. If you haven't booked yours yet, don't
forget to do so soon as we'd love to see you at either
Manchester or London, or both if you have access to a hellichopper!
Stuff Manchester (I can say
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Subject: Re: [backstage] I've woken up to a new world
I lost the whole of bbc.co.uk (and news.bbc.co.uk) last night from my Be
network at
Yes, Yahoo. I'm not going mad (at least, not yet... Or not completely mad).
I've tried figuring this one out myself but to no avail.
I sometimes spy on what the programs on my machine are doing network wise,
and I noticed a while back that iPlayer streaming connections were beginning
to come and
FWIW, I'm well used to horizontal scrolling for my listings when using
Digiguide - whilst he's not got the Digiguide-esque mousewheel behaviour
down yet, the horizontal scrolling works better than pages and pages of
vertical scrolling for listings, so I think it works quite nicely.
Dragging in
Both of the ip addresses are owned by Akamai content distribution network
that BBC Yahoo use to distribute their content.
whois 213.155.157.140
inetnum:213.155.157.0 - 213.155.157.255
netname:AKAMAI
descr: Akamai International B.V.
org:ORG-AIB7-RIPE
Christopher,
Have you checked for a trasparent proxy cache being used?
Proxy Test
This request appears NOT to have come via a proxy.
The request appears to have originated from host
78-105-102-xx.zone3.bethere.co.uk which has ip address 78.105.102.xx
Obfuscated the last octet for no
I came across this site the other day, I don't think anyone has mentioned it
before...
It's an interactive TV guide, all done without Flash. The search is AJAX
and searches after each keypress, and it looks good too.
http://www.zingzing.co.uk/
Good use of the BBC (and all the other)
The web streams are something we are currently looking at,
there are a lot of things happening behind the scenes at the
moment. But you can expect some higher bitrates and new
formats in the coming months. As others have said, we are
funded differently to the rest of BBC Radio and have to
Hahaha, what is this rubbish? The only building of relevance on Curzon
Street in Birmingham is Millennium Point, where the TIC is (and where I go
to University). The Hello Digital Festival is being held from the 23rd to
the 26th, and there's an accompanying conference, but it's free to enter and
This one's a late night, in-the-kitchen thought. I turned the radio on while
I was making a cup of tea and of course, after R4 closedown the WS is
simulcast. On FM, you get a wonderful, crisp stereo feed. On DAB, the WS
feed is fine when listening to the Radio 4 simulcast, 128kbps stereo, but
its
My site doesn't get much traffic but I'm always one for being as complete as
possible in listings... If you have a definitive list of stream URLs
available at some point in the future, please send 'em over. I still use the
site for listening to radio on an ad-hoc basis, and the radio
I used to use the WMP feeds of News 24 and the other BBC stuff a _lot_ on my
mobile device - yet a few weeks ago (and ever since), when I tried to load
the streams - either on a PC or my mobile device - they now don't work. The
News 24 stream just shows a static BBC News image for 10 seconds and
Once you've signed up and logged in, you'll see videos of an
animated character performing a range of gestures, and you'll
be asked how she feels. Your responses will help to train the
neural network.
Shades of I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave... ;)
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I'm currently trying to ensure that my current client
builds suitable safeguards into a similar feature they're
proposing to deliver.
Well surely it can't take much; something like SELECT * FROM
'active_news_articles' where 'published_date' = date(today)-90days?
(I know that's a horrible
if it's any help Matthew Postgate says this
Naturally we will want to introduce other devices as they become available
- and we're already working on the next group
in this blog post:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/09/bbc_iplayer_on_nokia_n96_mob
il.html
Devices will have to have a good web browser.
Oooo... The Touch Diamond/Touch Pro have good browsers... And the Touch Pro
has video out...
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So, I noticed with raised eyebrow that the Beeb is rolling out iPlayer on
the N96 handset.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/09/07/d
lbbc107.xml)
This is good news, because having unfettered unDRMed content at
comparatively high quality for just the iPhone
... and what about the neo freerunner platform!
And Android... And RIM's devices (that doesn't support DRM at all, something
one mobile music platform has already countered by selling major labels'
content in MP3 or AAC+ format)...
To be honest, I don't think the Windows Media DRM
If they are making GTK work properly on Mac OS X and Windows,
I don't mind the wait.
I heard about this again on Radio 4 whilst in the car earlier... While I
already knew about it, it suddenly made me realise - it's yet another
browser and DOM to code for.
Great, that makes four major
On Tue Sep 2 15:51:38 2008, Christopher Woods wrote:
Great, that makes four major browsers, each with their own
'take' on
web standards. Someone think of the developers!
You never know, Chrome might be standards compliant.
Oh god no, that means we'll have to do fully standards
Chrome is using Webkit, so assuming you already count Safari
as one of your three (*) existing major browsers, you should
be fine as far as HTML rendering is concerned.
Ooo, didn't know that. That doesn't inspire a great deal of confidence
though :/
(* IE6+/Firefox/Safari/Opera - which one
Flash 101?
I remember someone advertising on the list that they'd recreated all these
oldskool BBC clocks in Flash, and I marvelled at the intricacy and accuracy
of some of them (particularly the mockups of the old mechanical ones) - I
was under the impression the people responsible for the
I appreciate that this is a serious matter to many people, but is it really
relevant to the BBC Backstage mailing list or any of the usual topics
discussed on here? No. Please stay (at least vaguely) on-topic.
Unless the BBC is going to be doing some kind of twitter-liveblog mashup
from the
Yes these machines can if the makers don't cripple them like
Apple has done and even my favourite mobile phone maker does, HTC.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/23/poll-how-did-htc-mishandle-
the-video-driver-controversy/
I don't know if the Java/Flash thing really has any legs but
the
I have one of these (in a box just there, look). Next tonight, I'll be
opening it and blogging the results on http://james.cridland.net/blog/
http://james.cridland.net/blog/
Lucky bugger, it's the first Pure digital radio I've probably actually
wanted to buy! waves fist
I've no idea how
Based on stats - I don't have an off the shelf study to hand that I can
release, but as indicated elsewhere, it is true that the number of downloads
versus streams is influenced on a day to day basis depending on the type of
content available.
If there is interest in more stats then let me
2008/7/18 John O'Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's still about 8:1 between streaming and download.
Thanks for confirming this :-)
Empirical or based on hard stats? (if there's a recent study I'd be
interested to know, as it could come in useful for my final year
dissertation)
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The BBC is legal, Zattoo isn't?
Of course, this debate depends on how you interpret your definition of
illegal broadcast! Zattoo is, they argue, merely rebroadcasting the channels
in territories that can already receive them via other platforms (cable, DTV
etc). This they argue is entirely
But why does the bbc not provide the service?
Possibly because they're a bit busy at the moment providing the red button
hd feed multiscreen digital online stuff blow-by-blow updates to all
their news services! :)
I think it's just a bit too niche at this moment. I'm still looking
Christopher Woods wrote:
Tech question - what encoder(s) are you using? If it's software in
realtime or close-to-realtime, please (please please) say it's Lame
3.97. If the backend is using the Fraunhofer FhG codec, I think I
might contemplate going and banging my head against a wall
Thanks Ian, I can't make it so will appreciate the recording.
Ditto!
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We are giving a talk called Cool Accessibilty Hacks and
Subtitles using BBC Redux at Mashed this weekend.
For Mashed we're making an archive of our TV and radio
programmes available on the web on a system called BBC Redux.
You'll find our programmes in their native broadcast form
I have removed the email address.
Sorry for the delay in this people.
The bloke came onto the list, apologised and disabled the autoresponder...
You may have just kicked a valid user off the list :)
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Can Flash be reduced to a controllable toolbar on your start bar, and can it
be told to stay on top of other windows . both features that I for one use a
lot with WMP and (OMG) RP as well.
Or, if you like consolidation, just install Media Player Classic. (via
RealAlternative if you want
An option for the iplayer to pop-out to an always on top
widow, would be lovely actually - I would't want it all the
time, but for people who watch whilst using their computer,
it would be much easier than re-opening the same tab in a new
window, then resizing and scrolling it around
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
has
Linux x86, Solaris, Pocket PC and HP-UX versions as well as Windows
98/ME/2000/XP/Vista and MacOS/X
Unfortunately the PPC version is HORRIBLY outdated (Flash Player 7!) and it
doesn't work in any web pages at all if ANYTHING aside
Aston is a company who provide systems for generating
on-screen graphics for live programmes - however it's also
used as a generic term for those same graphics. So the kind
of graphics like you get on the News where they'll say Nick
Higham reporting, the name of an interviewee or
What does it take to get an email address delisted around here?
Maybe we should ask TRYPHENA BRADE one more time what he/she is here for?
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You'd think... But then my first flat in London barely
managed to get analogue... I actually got a digital box in
the first place because it offered a better picture! A clear
picture that broke up once every 90 seconds was preferable to
watching fuzz and snow.
Interesting you should
Good point Gareth
'News 24' is streamed from a SDI source.
We moved from analogue to digital capture cards about four/five years ago
the difference in quality was immediately noticable - bitrate frame size
for Flash has been upped of course, so looks even better (the current
encoders are a
Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use
for the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail
of a track? I've seen what looks like a sidechaining compressor in the
background of some shots on programmes like Timelapse or suchlike (where
Given that N24 has been pulled from Livestation, I can only imagine that the
BBC's lawyers have done something here. How long does Zattoo get?
Apparently it's nothing quite as sinister - N24 was streamed as part of the
technical trial, which has now come to an end, and they're looking to
News have just done a technical refresh of their studios and AFAIK they have
not put any HD kit in. I've no idea if any will go in before we all move
into new studios in the new BHX in 2012.
By BHX you mean Birmingham, right? (just doublechecking) And is everything
moving for News (studios
Now, if only Livestation was still streaming N24. ;) Or any of the main
terestrial channels, for that matter! Zattoo's exciting because it finally
offers a way for those without TV sets to get most of the terrestrial UK
lineup - I did a side-by-side comparison of the F1 on Sunday (left window:
USB
Out of interest, does anyone know if any of the Freesat receivers are Linux
based?
Given their ethernet socket, in-the-field software upgrade facility to
enable or add features, plus some cool translucency effects on the EPG and
NN banner (from the digitalspy screenies of the Humax HD
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Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a
single US citizen
in the BBC the many fund the many - but apart from that I
It would be the first order of the day - a beanbag for all
staff and free beer in the meeting rooms.
Last.fm has the ballpit (with webcams) and the BPI has the free beer, I
think that's reason enough for the Beeb to implement them both as sensible
employee-centric policies.
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Some interesting responses guys, thanks for humouring me :) Contrary to how
it may seem occasionally, ;) I don't try to post stuff to here simply to
ruffle feathers (I find it absolutely fascinating to enter in to these kinds
of conversations with people actually involved in the broadcast
I know there's been discusson around DAB's quality, nationwide rollout,
relative cost etc... An interesting aticle on El Reg today was (typically)
biased, but it did have an interesting graph of year-on-year change of unit
sales sales for DAB receivers
Personally I think satellite radio may be a better option.
Agreed - even DVB-T radio channels are a higher bitrate... Unfortunately
while that's viable, buying and installing a satellite dish receiver is a
bit out of the question for me :( I like my USB DAB radio, it's just so
frustrating
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To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] New BBC News site
You can remove the black bar with the following Greasemonkey
script I've knocked
Me too..
I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of widescreen
users (msyelf included).
However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen
real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it
all looks off-kilter. Also, a
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Sent: 28 March 2008 02:47
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Creative Archive
Hi,
I've just joined this list and noticed a brief reference to the BBC's
Creative Archive. I've been
I've been reading this week's SatCure newsletter and I noticed something
interesting in the News section:
BBC News 24 has moved:-
From 10773 H 22 5/6 (Astra 2D)
to 11954 H 27.5 2/3 (Astra 2A south beam)
This has caused some receivers to lose the channel. Best advice is to
reboot your Sky
I've noticed various emails appearing twice in the past day or so on the
backlist list. Notably, my News 24 moves to Astra 2A has just appeared in
my inbox, even though I sent it earlier today.
The order of emails received is also a little confused sometimes... And is
it me, or do emails always
Ian Forrester wrote:
I can confirm, we do utter the word bit torrent now and then :)
However *only* in the following sentence structure using the
subsequent
vocabulary:
snip
Haha, you said what I was about to say in a much more convoluted (yet
amusing) way ;) Got a chuckle out of me in
As the BBC News 24/BBC World feeds on http://www.livestation.com/
http://www.livestation.com/ show.
Indeed, and with just a ten second offset from realtime last time I checked
AND in higher quality... Can't argue with that! I only use Livestation to
stream N24 now. :)
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I mean is, what thing have they done to make it unique for the
iPhone and what can we do to route around that so other phones can use it?
What they have done is called user agent sniffing. They basically
look at whats
I dunno... I was lucky enough to have a tour round BBC Brum (Mailbox) last
year, and I found TV Ops absolutely fascinating. Could've easily spent all
day in there just asking annoyingly technical questions.
Maybe it was a good thing we left after ten minutes and were let loose on
the Midlands
Martin Deutsch wrote:
I've suggested that Christopher tries another reciever, or
moves the
aerial to somewhere with better signal strength. (I don't know that
much about how the decoding process works, but perhaps someone more
fluent in DVB will know - is it possible that error
As I understand it, their idea is that you buy their
proprietary USB-based key, walk over to their kiosk, select
and download a film in under a minute, bring it home, dump it
into the computer via standard USB the time it takes, then
watch it on Windows or in a purchased branded set-top
Can you give an exact channel, date and time when you
observed the phenomenon? (03:59 GMT last night on N24, perhaps?)
Definitely. Observable on BBC2 last night/this morning (05/03/2008) during
the intro for Spin (03:44am). Also observable during the 60second
countdown buffer for N24 top of
Not used my USB Freeview receiver for a while, hooked it up because I dug
out an amplified aerial and thought 'heck, why not.' In essense, audio seems
to be varying degrees out of phase - measurably 90 degrees out of phase on
BBC Three and N24. I observed this phenomenon tonight on BBC Three, BBCs
url ?
As mentioned by Nick Reynolds from the FMT team,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/p2p_next.html
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I'm so tempted to think that any software that is called Air is probably
vaporware...
Duke Nukem ForAirver anyone?
Anyone?
gets coat
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After hearing that bbc wordwide is to sell shows on itunes,
the whole iplayer keeps all the bbc stuff together argument,
seems to be breaking up into little bits of hypocrisy.
I'm just waiting for my [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes login
to drop into my Inbox so I can download all of these shows
Oh, and projects like Livestation and P2P Next. Competition, but not
necessarily in the same arenas (public vs. private initially... Whose idea
will spread to both? This is going to be exciting).
Hat-tip also to the marvellously geeky bod at the Beeb for the inclusion of
the Archimedes reference
Also, a lot of the time we buy CDs for each other, and a
tangible object is definitely better there. I wonder what
proportion of CDs are bought as presents?
buzzwords
The industry itself readily acknowledges that the vast majority of CD
purchases are from the demographic who buy one, maybe
Maybe - I get more vinyl every month, but I haven't bought a
CD for ages. SACDs are tempting, sounding far better than
CDs, but there are few new releases, so rather than buying a
player this year, I think I'll invest in a better gramophone
for my 78s :-)
The ELP Laser Turntable is your
Firstly, the same ep (Adam) has two entries:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008z1rb.shtml?filter=category%3A100
003start=2scope=iplayercategoriesversion_pid=b0090rc1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008z1rb.shtml?filter=category%3A1000
Indeed, I just received my account activation email (months after I signed
up!) but I had been piggybacking on someone else's shared UID occasionally
(it might've even been Brian who gave me access!) - which was useful, but I
lost all the configs anyway when my laptop broke in November. Just
- but not
surprised - to find BBC World Service than BBC World.
It's ahead of the News 24 Windows Media stream, which is interesting.
On 12/02/2008, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, I just received my account activation email (months after I signed
up!) but I had been
stream, which is interesting.
On 12/02/2008, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, I just received my account activation email (months after I signed
up!) but I had been piggybacking on someone else's shared UID occasionally
(it might've even been Brian who gave me access!) - which
That's rather handy. :D Seems to work just fine in Opera Kestrel too.
My only suggestion for (a minute) improvement would be a toggle to
progressively display WIL and News as opposed to interleaving them
WIL/News/WIL/News (some strange people - like me - prefer grouped, even if
you can already
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Sent: 08 January 2008 19:08
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The
DataPortability Workgroup
I did read an interesting argument in favour of keeping details like these
distinct and separate... Which is definitely going to be one of the key
concerns the DP project's gonna have to deal with from day dot - friends
have rights too... The ability to almost set a flag to your details somehow
to
I refer the honourable gentleman to
http://james.cridland.net/code/clock.html - which should be
accurate within a second or so.
Oooh, aaah... Most useful!
*steals*
*adds to codebank*
*attributes credit to original author* (I play nice ;)
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I noticed that last week - had a good chuckle at that :D
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Williams
Sent: 21 December 2007 12:43
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] iPlayer Volume Control
Just a quick !Hurrah!
Never mind EOT, just emply a tasteful dollup of SiFR -
http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr for the uninitiated. Never mind all that
proprietary EOT stuff, (and whilst I don't actually loathe IE, I just think
it's a waste of a feature.) Bonus: cross-browser branded headers in whatever
font the BBC's
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