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Radio 3 "The Essay" errors for recent episodes in podcast page and feed
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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