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Smashing breakthrough this morning!

I'm a very happy bunny this morning. Not that you'd know it to look at me tho, hunched over my laptop with headphones on and a glazed slightly moody look on my face...! Anyway, I'll get to the point, and why I'm a happy bunny. I finally managed to find a way to play BBC archived radio on my laptop. You see, the special thing about my laptop is that I don't have admin rights and so can't install programs like normal people. That means any program I use has to be a portable program that doesn't actually need to be installed. (ok, some programs install, but not all). The program in question for the BBC archived radio streams is of course Realplayer. This has to be installed, and not only that, your browser needs to recognise the plugin so that when you press play on the online BBC radio, it knows what to do! 1. So let's cut to the chase. I found this fabulous portable Realplayer HERE . It's a fully fledged version of Realplayer 11 as a single executable...