Bizarrely UK users ie. those who have to pay for the BBC have to use a cloak to access this content. At least the charter is up this year. Hopefully all the BBC will be 'not funded by the license fee' soon.
The nonsense is that it is trivial to bypass such location filtering.
Don't hold your breath on the BBC losing that license fee anytime soon - there is too much money being made off it by all sorts of companies [not just the BBC]. Despite having long left the UK, their sub-contracted enforcement company still send me reminders to my old UK address every few weeks and tell me they're coming to visit me to check my TV equipment and that they'll take me to court when they catch me ! They've spent hundreds of pounds more than the license fee sending those letters and having people visit to be told I don't live there any longer. They still turn up every 2 months or so. They've had years to update their records but never do.
Appreciate any form of actual journalism while you have it.
So the not great, old programmes are funded through the licence fee?
Great, niche programs such as Open University have made way for the same commercial stuff that every other television network already provides.