BBC2Podcast
Geo-unblocking proxy for BBC radio as podcasts
Details
- External ID
- 46366336
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- BBC2Podcast
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 23, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- voice AI agents and infrastructure
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- proxy for accessing bbc radio as podcasts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward proxy/feed generator that fetches BBC Sounds streams via UK-based proxy servers and exposes them as an RSS podcast feed.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Overcast
Concerns raised: BBC geo-blocking outside UK
Competitors
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Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.
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