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Radio 3 "The Essay" errors for recent episodes in podcast page and feed
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Radio 3 has a program called "The Essay" with RSS feed (which I mostly use) @ | |
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio3/essay/rss.xml | |
and podcast page @ | |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/essay | |
Currently, for episode title= | |
Venice Unravelled_Episode 5of5_Water Level | |
, both sources link to | |
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio3/essay/essay_20150127-1054a.mp3 | |
That file is downloadable, and has correct-looking MP3 metadata= | |
BBC Radio 3 - Essay: Venice Unravelled_Episode 5of5_Water Level | |
Unfortunately the actual *audio* in that file is plainly from the previous Essay episode, | |
The Book That Changed Me - Sir Paul Nurse 23 Jan 15 | |
And it gets worse! Just now I checked the podcast page for the URI for the Paul Nurse episode, | |
thinking someone might have just switched the two. Alas, the URI provided for that episode is | |
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio3/essay/essay_20150123-2300a.mp3 | |
... which is the same URI as that provided for the episode *before that*, titled | |
The Fall and Rise of the British Castle | |
Worse yet, the latter episode also (on that webpage) claims to have aired on the same day | |
as the Nurse episode, which seems obviously wrong. | |
So, plainly, someone needs to get into the source for the podcast page= | |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/essay | |
and fix a few recent entries--notably, retarget the content links. | |
Extra credit for fixing the feed as well. |
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