BBC Radio 4 podcast not iTunes compatible?

Then why is it available in iTunes, I wonder?
When I try to look at the episodes from "Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4", I get the following error:
"There are no playable episodes for Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4. The URL might oiunt to text-only episodes, or contain file types that iTunes cannot play".
I'm using the very latest version of iTunes (7.7.1.) The podcast seems to download okay. Perhaps this is corrupted content on the iTunes store? However, from the reviews of this podcast, other people seem to be enjoying it.

Sounds like you have the downloaded version of BBC iPlayer.
To be behaving that way, it must be in the startup items or login items on your Mac.
Start by looking in
System Preferences > Accounts > your account > Login Items
and remove any refence to iPlayer or BBC (highlight the item and click the minus sign at the bottom of the window),
Then look in the following locations for iPlayer dæmon or similar related files and delete them if found.
~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchAgents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/System/Library/StartupItems
Where ~/ denotes your home folder and / denotes the Macintosh HD.

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