email from Dr Howard Scott, Guangzhou, China
Charlie - can you produce your programme in a podcast? I would love to be able to listen to it on a Chinese bus or train.
Cheers
Howard
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Similar questions are asked virtually every week, so it's about time I posted an explanation here.
The BBC has not yet been able to make an agreement with the owners of rights in recordings and songs to allow them to reproduce entire programmes as downloads. The rights owners feel that they should be compensated for this use of their music, but as the BBC would not be charging for the podcast, there is no 'income stream' to share with the owners. Impasse, for the time being.