Steve W wrote:
I would like to be able to create MP3 files from some BBC programmes
(mainly R4 speech) on their web site. I have Musicmatch so I feel
there ought to be a way of feeding the stream from RealPlayer (or
similar) into the "Recorder" of my MusicMatch programmes, giving an
MP3 file.

I'm not sure if there is any copyright issues, but I doubt it since
BBC are already making available some of their programmes (eg R4's
"In Our Time") as straightforward MP3 downloads on an experimental
basis.

Any advice on easy ways of doing this?

I have used Totalrecorder to do exactly this for a couple of years now