Sigh.

[conuly]

Are there any free VPNs that are reliable and not too terribly sketchy that I could use to download a single radio show from the BBC site? (All episodes of the show, I mean, not just one episode, but only one show.) I'm halfway through when all of a sudden they remember they haven't geoblocked it, and now I can't finish it, and I'm annoyed because it was a rare audio format that I could tolerate, making it great for listening to while doing boring tasks like washing dishes. Plus, it's Homefront, so it's, um, educational. Alternatively, any Brits willing to engage in a petty, minor case of internet piracy? Download 'em, send them to me?

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

Sure, can you give me the link?

[conuly]

You rock and I love you. It's a lot of downloading, though. I've got all entries from 30 September 1916 and earlier, but that leaves December 1916 through to... well, the end of the war, but they aren't there yet. New episodes are posted 100 years after the date they "happened", and they aren't doing the new season (series?) yet, not for a few days. It doesn't end until the Armistice or maybe a bit later.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dv1g4/episodes/downloads?page=2

[cosmolinguist]

I men, you won't get them immediately or all at once, but it's something I'm happy to do when I'd otherwise not be doing anything very useful anyway (which happens a lot).

[conuly]

Certainly :)

You're doing me a favor, I wouldn't rush you. I just didn't want you to download the heck out of them and then go "Well, geez, Connie, do I need to ask you how to send them as well?"

[conuly]

It occurs to me that you might want my email as well, which is conuly AT yahoo

[chickenfeet]

As a VPN Tunnelbear is quite good. It gives 500MB free a month or unlimited for $50/year

[kshandra]

Seconding the recommendation for Tunnelbear. In addition, you can tweet to them once a month for an additional 5G (which doesn't roll over, but the only time I've come close to using the entire 5G in a month was during the 2012 Olympics).

Plus the graphics are adorable.

[conuly]

Google suggests it doesn't currently work for iplayer, which is exactly the only thing I need it to work for.

[kshandra]

Oh, that's a bummer! I know it used to, 'cause that's what I needed it for as well.

[robby]

You might want to look for a VPN that offers a free trial. I have a VPN to hide my video streaming from Comcast. This will be especially important now that net neutrality is gone.

[8hyenas]

Using this to send an uplifting news link! https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62

Look! Humans perhaps not instinctively terrible!