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by gakada 3527 days ago
Blocked in the UK. Can someone help us read our own website?

Edit: why is this at -3? You guys are assholes.

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You downvoted since our machine learning algorithm predicted you were about to call us assholes.
It's not hosted on "our own website" - our licence fee isn't paying for it, neither is HM Government; hence we cannot read it because the BBC cannot engage in commercial activity - I assume it has ads, or maybe a paywall - in the UK.

> BBC WORLDWIDE IS THE MAIN COMMERCIAL ARM AND A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC). OUR VISION IS TO BUILD THE BBC'S BRANDS, AUDIENCES, COMMERCIAL RETURNS AND REPUTATION ACROSS THE WORLD.

> BBC Worldwide helps keep the Licence Fee as low as possible, returning £222.2m to the BBC in the last financial year, an increase of 17.6% from 2014/15, adjusted for disposals, and equivalent to 13.0% of BBC Television content funding in the year.

Why, though, they don't duplicate the content with the IP-restriction instead of paywall/ads/whatever it is, I'm not quite sure.

I found another link [0] to the article at the bbc.co.uk domain but it seems to immediately redirect to the article hosted at bbc.com.

[0] www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gns25

Try any of these:

Tor Browser archive.is archive.org Google cache Bing cache Coral cache

Did you try Google Cache?