Play BBC Radio with mpd or mplayer from the command line

bbcradio.sh

#!/bin/bash
play() {
  playlist="http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_$1.m3u8"
  echo $playlist
  if mpc
  then
    mpc add $playlist
    mpc play
  else
    mplayer $playlist
  fi
}
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Select a station:"
  select s in radio_one radio_two radio_three radio_fourfm radio_five_live 6music
  do
    play ${s##* }
    break
  done
else
  play $1
fi
# GistID: 4052479

Updated again with high quality streams listed here http://forum.minimserver.com/showthread.php?tid=2173 and also added radio_four_extra and five_live_sports_extra

https://gist.github.com/noodlebug/0e5e3754f4e8dbf608e72431b9c34484

The stream links are apparently outdated again -- for mpd, I've modified my own little script, but TL;DR:

playlist="http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_$1_mf_p"

and then modify the station names in the select using any of

STATIONS=(
    radio1 radio1xtra radio2 radio3
    radio4fm radio4lw radio4extra
    radio5live 6music asianet
    cymru foyle nangaidheal scotlandfm
    ulster walesmw 
)

Found stream urls in this blog post.

Lately for streaming radio in the UK I've had the change the URL to
playlist="http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_$1"