Maybe, but I'm not that excited about it. I already skip nytimes articles and now I can safely skip bbc articles. If websites enable cookies or trackers on the domains they own, I'm okay with that, but I'm avoiding tracking from other domains for now. If you want to have brightcove gatekeep your content, go ahead.
This is a bbc.com URL, should be internationally available.
Works for me in the UK FWIW, Safari Mac.
I don't think that's the issue being referred to. BBC.com has no advertising when viewed within the UK. Outside the UK it has a ton of adverts and tracking. So using UK VPN should get around those things.