I make heavy use of the R4 podcasts to listen on the bike - starting with The Archers from when I turn off the main road, then yesterday's Today highlights, then through From Our Own Correspondent, Material World, More or Less, The Report, etc., etc. Comedy programs are not on podcast, so they're on iPlayer when I'm ironing - Listen Against is better than anything on the telly, as was Cabin Pressure.
No-one's mentioned books and plays, The Complete Smiley was clearly the best adaptation yet, and the recent Gormenghast, heavily abridged of course but a good new angles.
And not forgetting The Shipping Forecast, I listen to that most mornings, though with digital upstairs I have the option of switching back to the World Service to hear the end of whatever was interrupted by the switchover.
Now this radio downloader someone mentioned above - is something similar available for MacOs? Or even Linux command line? I take it GetiPlayer has not been reincarnated?