Hey peeps, I heard some geezer on the wireless t'other day talking about a David Bowie drama starring Jon Culshaw that had been on the BBC World Service recently.
I found it and searched:
In The Studio - The Final Take: Bowie in the studio (w3cswcd7)

The item did come up but didnt record. Message:
No media stream found for required programme version or recording mode

Any ideas?

Works fine for me using the command line;

get_iplayer --pid w3cswcd7

Thanks for the heads-up about the programme though; I'm going to enjoy listening to this.