How about get_iplayer?
This can download and stream Radio Four programs with no issues.
I think it does need mplayer or something similar to play the actual sound.
Can obviously also do TV and has PVR like functionality too.

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html


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Karl
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On 8 May 2014 18:07, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
I'm looking for a way to (simply) play BBC Radio 4 and other BBC
stations on my desktop machine.  I used to use radiotray but updating
to xubuntu 14.04 seems to have broken that completely (it was always a
*bit* flakey).

I don't want a full blown music player really, though one that's easy
to configure to play BBC would be OK.

I *definitely* don't want a list of thousands of stations to select
from which rarely includes BBC anyway, I just want to be able to enter
a BBC radio URL and hear the radio.

I have clementine installed but I can't see how to get that to play
URLs, it looks like it should but seems to be broken when you try it.
Like so many other players I've found.

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Chris Green

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