A lot of metadata around the BBC's archives are available through /programmes in a variety of machine-readable formats, including RDF.<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/developers" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/developers</a><p>For example, Eastenders<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d</a>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d.rdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d.rdf</a><p>Older programme data is added continuously, but TV catch-up is limited to UK users within a 7-day window.