If I might just clarify, with a word or two of explanation.
The owner of linuxcentre.net (Phil, in fact) decided not to continue development of his get_iplayer.pl Perl script. This was due to a change in policy at the BBC, who decided to use open source code in their iPlayer project, but then hypocritically refused to allow other people to treat the iPlayer as an open source project!
As a result of Phil's decision, the existing get_iplayer scripts all failed, because those which were sufficiently up-to-date to cope with the recent changes in the BBC's iPlayer code relied upon being able to "phone home", but Phil's site was no longer able to reply, he having shut down all his site's functions and removed everything except a few random Help pages.
It was therefore necessary to make a certain change to the last release version of Phil's
get_iplayer script, to stop it phoning home. This encouraged a new developer to take up the challenge, and release a slightly revised perl script which included this alteration. The revised version does not "phone home" at all.
The new developer is now releasing occasional updates to the script to keep it functioning. His site is
http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer but it is NOT a mirror. It is a site for the new, revised versions of the get_iplayer script.