On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 21:09 +0000, Colin McCarthy wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, > who is in > his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed > Ubuntu 8.04 > (no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. > Now, big > brother is inundated with questions most of which, > fortunately, I can > answer. However, now I am stumped, he wants to listen to BBC > radio on > the BBC website, something I do not do. I have tried Google > but am > mightily confused so could some kind person suggest somethings > he might > try, please. > > Norman > > > > Hi Norman. > I have just listened to Radio 2 successfully online with FireFox 3 on > Ubuntu 8.10. (It also worked on 8.04). > I enjoy listening to Malcolm Laycocks show on a Sunday night. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00f941q > I like the old time music, but I guess to you and your brother it's > just 'music' :-) hehehehe > > All I can think of that you need to listen to it is Flash, which you > can get here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ > > Hope that helps. > > Colin And of course don't forget that some BBC radio content is also available directly in the totem media player in the new 8.10 Applications -> sound and video -> movie player. select playlist and pick BBC from the drop down list, this populates and away you go. >
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