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A BBC Programme Identifier (PID) is an 8-character, alphanumeric unique identifier for a television or radio programme, season or series, used by the BBC in their we URLs, [iPlayer]] viewers, and internal databases.[1]

For example, the PID for the series The Life Scientific is b015sqc7;[2] the PID for the episoade first broadcast on 8 July 014 is b048l0g3.[3]

The BBC also encourages viewers and listeners to machine tag media on social sites such as Flickr using PIDs.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Ferne, Tristan (18 August 2009). "BBC - Radio Labs: Machine tagging the BBC". BBC. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific - Available now". BBC Online. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Zoe Shipton". BBC Online. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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