A bit of background to this. The BBC is funded by every single household with a TV in the UK (except old people). iPlayer is a platform for watching BBC shows you've missed. Initially iPlayer was Windows XP only, and we had a protest about it in London and in Manchester. Then, they released a Flash version, but as Flash isn't free software, users of free software operating systems were still left in the cold. Ashley Highfield estimated there were 400 GNU/Linux users in the UK, and was proven badly wrong.
A few days ago, they launched an iPhone version, even though they've still not released a GNU/Linux version.

You'll need:

* Iceweasel, GNUzilla or Mozilla Firefox
* User Agent Switcher
* Firebug

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