The BBC’s series a history of the world in 100 objects which I mentioned previously has finished.
You still can’t easily download all the MP3 files from the website in a useful way, eg. as a ZIP or tarball, but I processed their RSS feed to get the raw URLs and with a simple shell loop and wget you can grab them easily.
(Yes, that list has 101 URLs …)
Richard WM Jones 
With wget, you can save all those urls to a file, say “wget.txt” and then:
$ wget -ci wget.txt
Sounds like an interesting show!
Thanks, good tip.
Thanks a lot.
It’s really awesome! Thanks!
Updates for bitrot, I assume the BBC edits or re-encodes faulty files:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100211-1000a.mp3 → b
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100519-1000b.mp3 → c
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100630-1000a.mp3 → b
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100615-1000a.mp3 → b
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100701-1000a.mp3 → b
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100709-1000b.mp3 → d
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100913-1000b.mp3 → c
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100916-1000a.mp3 → c
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20101022-1000b.mp3 → d