ok.. the wife insisted I dowload this.
[and I must admit to being a bit recklessly curious..]

So, I decided to try installing the software to a folder on a USB stick
and download the audio files to Desktop.

It worked.

The BBC audio files are a mysterious 'Format 4',
each accompanied with its own even more mysterious '1 Kb POS' file ???

so whats that, and how do you convert to mp3 ?