BBC iplayer / get-iplayer

Suppose someone sends you a link to an iplayer program:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018dvyg/horizon-19811982-9-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out

And you follow it and find some insanely overcomplicated flash-filth at the other end.

All is not lost.

sudo apt-get install get-iplayer

get-iplayer --get http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p018dvyg/horizon-19811982-9-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out

and you have a nice copy in a usable format, which you can play with mplayer, as a man should.

mplayer Horizon_-_1981-1982_9._The_Pleasure_of_Finding_Things_Out_p018dvyg_default.mp4