Safari streams audio poorly on an iPad, downloads perfectly on a Mac

In Safari on a Mac when I connect to a downloadable mp3 file on a web site (e.g., click the "mp3" link at http://speeches.byu.edu/index.php?act=viewitem&id=2003), the file downloads and starts playing in iTunes.
On an iPad (and an iPhone) the file starts streaming in Safari but then stops partway through the talk or loops back to the beginning of the stream.
I had a friend try it on his Android device, and it downloads it and plays.
What can I do different to access it directly (without having to download it on the computer and then sync it to the iPad/iPhone)?

When using Safari, type the word or phrase that you are trying to find in the search box in the upper right corner and a pop up box will appear with a number of choices for you. At the bottom of that pop up box there is a heading that says "On this page" in a grey bar. Tap that search word in the bottom of the box and that's how you do a find for the word or phrase in Safari.
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