What follows is something of a rant!

You may, or may not, be aware that there is a local radio
station, Radio Jackie, near where Brian Gaff lives. They have a
web page, below, which gives the URLs for a number of streams so
that people can use the software of their choice. Why oh why
can't the BBC do the same? They hide the iPlayer streams behind
Flash (which I refuse to have on the grounds of too many
security problems) and now they are hiding the surround sound
stream behind only one browser which works on a non-Microsoft
operating system. From my point of view Chrome is not an option
because it includes Flash.

http://www.radiojackie.com/listennowpage.asp

Thats simply because its run by knowledgeable people who care about what
there're doing ..

... Its that simple;!....



See if you can persuade someone at the BBC that there are people
who have a clue, who want to use their own choice of software,
and therefore only need the stream's URL. On one of the web
pages, of course, not in a private email.

--
Tony Sayer