giPlayer
giPlayer is a very simple python gtk gui to download BBC programmes on the Linux OS.
With a deb file it should easily work on all debian based versions of Linux including Ubuntu.
There is no help but it is fairly straightforward to use. It is a wrapper for get_iplayer.
If you wish to understand in more detail how it downloads programmes you can read the command line program get_iplayer help file.
For Ubuntu:
Ensure that the Community Maintained Open Source software (Universe) repository is selected so that dependencies can be installed.
The package ffmpeg is not automatically installed but is recommended.
Versions:
0.31b Fixed broken dependency in Ubuntu 10.10.
0.3b Added subtitles option.
0.2b Fixed bug that prevented giPlayer executing if no .get_iplayer folder existed.
0.1b Original.