Roger Price & Archiving through a CDN

A few days ago, I linked to the primary source today (there’s an archive too).

What’s less obvious is that the primary content backend is Podbean (plus several other places, yay!).

Roger Price was a well-loved Bible teacher who sadly passed away in 1987. In his short career he wrote 4 books and recorded around 300 Bible studies. He ministered throughout the British Isles and widely in Europe, particularly in Sweden, Germany and Holland. He was renowned for his ability to explain complex theology in an easily understandable way. His talks are presented now online and via podcast platforms so as to reach as many people as possible, for free, as per Roger’s wishes.

In any case, now all the direct Podbean mp3 links I could find at this time are in the internet archive.

Podbean appears to have a Content Delivery Network (CDN) which is evidently optimised for massively parallel delivery (think thousands or even millions of simultaneous downloads). But that makes it harder to send this kind of message through time (as far as it can go), to the highly probable very long term future, where Podbean goes offline indefinitely. I usually archived each intermediate step in the URL chain to get it to work.

That stated, they key is to keep following the internet archive links and redirects, like solving a puzzle (hint1, hint2, hint3), though some initially got archived as traps like infinite redirect loops, they could be re-archived such that they did resolve to an mp3 download for me from the index, except for one.

P.S. Sorry for this one, perhaps I did something wrong here? But just in case it helps another soul, on page 4 the BBS 059 episode link hits a:

This page is unavailable for archiving. The server returned code:

because access is forbidden

Here’s a link to another copy of that same file, 57,404,497 bytes in size, in the internet archive. Each of the talks / mp3s / podcasts is about an hour long.

Perhaps someone else will archive/follow it all again when the archive is a little less unstable.

Or perhaps there’s one already of one of the other podcast delivery platforms?

P.S. Thank God for my mother, not just for bringing me into this world and raising me with my Dad, but also for recommending Roger Price. I’ll stop here because I’m rambling on and it’s late in Sydney, but I’d rather just get this out now. God bless!