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Why is there no download option for some television programmes?

We're unable to make some programmes available to download due to rights issues, however many rights agreeements do allow us to make these programmes available to stream for seven days after broadcast.

Sometimes technical difficulties mean that we've been unable to encode the programme for download. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, however we do try to make all television programmes available for both download and streaming where we have the rights to do so.

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