"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:10:19 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article 4a405505.207571203@localhost, Don Pearce
wrote:
Radio 4 right now (3:00 to 3:30) for a history of early recording.

I recorded it from 'listen again' so I can have a sit-and-listen later
today. One thing has made me curious. I think the Radio Times listed it as
3:00 to 3:45 - i.e. 45 mins long. But the iPlayer version seemed to be
about 57 mins long - i.e. nominally 1 hour. Is the iPlayer version
actually
longer than the live broadcast?

The programme as broadcast is certainly 45 minutes. But radio progs on
iPlayer typically include the last half hour (it seems like) of the
previous programme, so who knows. Funny that they manage to trim the
TV programmes accurately and add a one second station ID at the front.
I wonder why they can't do that for radio.

I did what Jim did, and recorded it off "listen again". But I then edited
off the "heads and tails" and I'm left with a programme that runs for 57
minutes and two seconds. So perhaps the listen-again version is longer?

David.