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Radio 4 Comedy Feeds | HubLog — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:34:27 +0000

[...] there are now feeds available for all of the BBC programmes/stations in multiple formats, you can subscribe to a calendar of comedy shows on Radio 4, for [...]

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[...] between them more coherent and consistent. So for example making schedules by format in addition to schedules by genre and generally linking everything up. We’re also going to be adding the missing views – those [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:24:32 +0000

Fair enough – you can guess my feature request though – a “narrative repeat”-free feed! I assume that a decision has been made that they should be included though, so fair enough.

Send my thanks to all at the BBC for the rapid movement into linked data – it’s looking great in general.

Thanks again!

Dave

By: Tom Scott

Tom Scott — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:38:28 +0000

@Dave

So we have a concept know as “narrative repeats” – these are repeats that happen within 7 days of the original broadcast.

The …/debut includes narrative repeats this means that if a ‘new’ programme is broadcast or is repeated within that 7 day window all instances are included.

Confusing heh? It makes much more sense when your dealing with the TV schedule.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:22:42 +0000

@Tom

Cheers for the reply – I can see the problem the old stuff that is ‘debuting’ since your new system came in, no worries. But shouldn’t the Radio 4 LW repeats of the new series not be showing? Because your system knows that they are playing on FM a few days earlier? Would be grand if it did, but I guess the logic may be difficult/ may not be your top priority!

Cheers!

By: Tom Scott

Tom Scott — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:20:09 +0000

@Dave

This is really a problem with the data – because we don’t yet have a full schedule history we don’t know/ the application doesn’t ‘know’ that this isn’t a debut (I know the title of the series is Series 53 – but that’s just a piece of text and it’s not modelled as such in the database).

Sorry it’s a bit misleading – it’s more useful for programmes that are new i.e. those that have started since the start of the data in the database.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:42:04 +0000

Should I be able to get a calendar that just shows the debut of a programme?

eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5dp/episodes/upcoming/debut.ics

This is currently showing old episodes on BBC7 and repeats of the current series on BBC Radio 4 LW, as well as the new series that is debuting on BBC Radio 4 FM. Just wondered if there was a way to get just new stuff or is this just a bug?

Cheers!

By: alf

alf — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:28:11 +0000

Actually I just noticed the “series->title” and “episode->position” fields – they should be enough, probably.

By: alf

alf — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:22:33 +0000

Any chance of getting the series and episode numbers in there? I’ve been trying to get alerts when new comedy series start on Radio 4 for years, and this is almost perfect.

By: Tom Scott

Tom Scott — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:49:07 +0000

@Rob yes you can – sorry I should have pointed out how to do that.

All you need to do is add /schedules/upcoming.ics to the URL so for example the sailing schedule is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/sport/sailing/schedules/upcoming.ics