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[challenge entry] Clare Balding was asked but turned down the role

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(Wise Guy Rabbi Dedicated to MS Paint, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:11, archived)
# Sorry to threadjack but I have an urgent request
I am desperate to see a programme that's on BBC4 at 7pm and have no means of recording it.

Is there any kind person here that can record it for me?
*grovel*

If I can get my paws on it, I will donate dosh to the CST.

*grovels again*
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:19, archived)
# According to the iPlayer page, this will be available until:
7:59PM Sat, 27 Aug 2011
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:23, archived)
# Correct
And I won't be able to download it as I am not in the UK :(
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:26, archived)
# Oh.
Sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:27, archived)
# Just tuned in meself.
It'll be better than Top Gear.
EDIT: although after half an hour I got sick of it and started listening to the tunes on the Rastamouse website instead.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:00, archived)
# proxy?
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:35, archived)
# Is that easy and safe to set up?
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:39, archived)
# depends on how effective your tin foil hat is
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:45, archived)
# ^
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:39, archived)
# I've never got one to work on iplayer.
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:53, archived)
# I am trying right now. No luck
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:59, archived)
# I'm sure it would be possible for someone in the uk to download it, strip it of protection and just upload it somewhere for you.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:08, archived)
# In fact... lets see...
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:14, archived)
# I shall crack this
No bugger is going to stand in my way of getting it somehow.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:14, archived)
# I'm downloading an episode of rastamouse to see how easy it is.
edit: shit, it turned into ten minutes of noise
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:20, archived)
# If it's difficult,
you should sue Da Easy Crew under the Trades Descriptions Act.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:27, archived)
# Oh poo
Thanks for trying though.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:33, archived)
# Trying different software.
I'm the kind of weirdo who finds this fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:35, archived)
# This software can do it, but wants me to pay for it. Bloody ruins the point.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:48, archived)
# unless it's demanding you stuff cash money into your cdrom drive
i suspect what it actually requires is some sort of sequence of alpha numerical characters at some point in its installation.
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:52, archived)
# Cracks are saying no.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 20:15, archived)
# Try get_iplayer
Works every time for me (Win7 32bit.)
linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/download
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 21:11, archived)
# If all else fails, we could try to put a request in the newsletter.
Which is, of course, above the strictures of intellectual property law and utterly immune to lawsuits.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:48, archived)
# not me, i'm shit at technical stuff
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:54, archived)
# Why the urgency to hear Verdi's Requiem?
Are you suddenly aware that you're just about to die?
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:56, archived)
# not that episodes of the feeling of imminent mortality aren't bad
but Verdi's requiem is good enough to listen to at any time
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:58, archived)
# ^
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:01, archived)
# must admit, though
i much prefer Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, especially during a thunderstorm!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:05, archived)
# That's a different kettle of worms though
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:06, archived)
# true
and the only good reason to ever watch fantasia
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:09, archived)
# It's also a good excuse for giving LSD to minors.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:13, archived)
# fuck that
why would i want to waste my LSD on kids?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:15, archived)
# Because it's in all our interests to invest in the welfare of the next generation, of course.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:19, archived)
# well, i do try
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:20, archived)
# Hahahahahah
I saw it live and I NEED the recording of it.

It's one of the greatest vocal works I have ever sung and imho, THE greatest vocal work ever produced.

It blows me away.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:59, archived)
# not as good as Spice Girls though :)
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:03, archived)
# That goes without saying
Nothing touches the dulcet tones of Posh Spice.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:06, archived)
# Good luck with the hunt. I'm sure somebody here'll be able to get a recording of the gig to you eventually.
If I was dying, though, I'd be like: "Fuckin' 'ell, can you turn that overwhelming, caterwauling shit off? I'm trying to die here, for fuck's sa-"
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:08, archived)
# Hahahahahahaha
Thankfully it's going to be available for a week so I shall have time to sort this out.

It's about time I bought a nice/safe proxy wossname so I can watch BBC Programmes.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:13, archived)
# i've already decided
at my funeral, i want scissor sisters' i can't decide to be played. should piss my family off no end.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:14, archived)
# That's the spirit!
At my funeral, the DJ took requests.
Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" was the highlight.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:23, archived)
# hahahaha!
my choices are:
Fast As a Shark by Accept
Battle Stations by Winger
I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:29, archived)
# I always quite fancied 'new life' by depeche mode for my funeral.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:34, archived)
# i was going to go for People Who Died by Jim Carrol
but even i think that's pushing it a bit
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:36, archived)
# I can't really comment,
I haven't heard any of the four songs you've mentioned so far.

There's always the grateful dead, I suppose.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:40, archived)
# if you've ever watched bill and ted's bogus journey
you've heard battle stations
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:45, archived)
# A nice hour-long version of "Dark Star" should help foster everlasting resentment among one's bereaved beloved.
It'd ease the grief, in a way.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:45, archived)
# At least they'd remember old whatshisname.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:55, archived)
# Oh, bugger. That's the last thing I'd want.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 20:02, archived)
# register on http://thebox.bz
it's a torrent site for british tv stuff.

they'll almost certainly have it to download by tomorrow.
(I helped save b3ta! Spunky McPunk not dead yet, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:40, archived)
# Ooh
I shall go and have a look. Thanks.

Edit: site no more :(
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 18:42, archived)
# There are others
I have used tvchaosuk.com in the past. It's still there.
(I helped save b3ta! Nun The Wiser : My middle name's still RIS, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 19:04, archived)
# If it appears on newsgroups in the next couple of days
I'll stick it up somewhere. A bunch of other proms stuff is already up.
(I helped save b3ta! numberbruncher - correct by nature, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 20:32, archived)
# Wrong, the site is up and OK.
Would you like an invite?
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sun 21 Aug 2011, 20:50, archived)
# if you're still having problems, let me know, I can defo get you a copy
will need to sort out how to get you a 700mb file (or 2.4 gig for higher quality)
but I'm sure that's easy :)
(I helped save b3ta! lustreboy making himself laugh since 1973 (tm), Mon 22 Aug 2011, 20:34, archived)