the BBC is a Pain in the Ass
for insisting that it needs flash to be installed.
My MBP has never had that abomination called Flash installed and still I get sites that can't even show the home page because it is all written in Flash.
Those sites I blacklist but it is hard to see why the BBC can't simply move everyone over to the mobile site and be done with it. After all iOS has never had flash (and whatever you think of Steve Jobs, this was a smart decision ) and it shows the BBC pages perfectly well.