The BBC has been doing a lot of work toward making its content open and available to people. Now they've added APIs allowing people to remix BBC content for new uses:

BBC Backstage provides a way for programmers to integrate BBC content into their web applications - the only caveat being that it must not be used commercially. Information is made available through "application programming interfaces" (API) – software-based rules which allow a programmer to harness the BBC’s content – and include connections to news feeds, television and radio listings, travel information and weather data.

...via Smart Mobs