On Friday, April 13th, 2012, at 16:53:16h +0200, Froggy wrote:

It seems however that Auntie has recently changed its streaming policy
and us unwashed on the wrong side of both ponds are stuck with a reduced
version of the stream

No, it would appear that you are using the wrong URL to try and play
the AAC 320k stream which emanates from a hosting company

bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net

and not the BBC themselves.