Actually it is great to watch BBC iPlayer on Linux

Yes, with get-iplayer, it is now easy to watch BBC shows hosted in iPlayer. This is a quick how-to.

1) Install get-iplayer.
2) Go to iPlayer webpage and find out what you want to watch.
3) Open a terminal window, type get-iplayer "title of the show", it will give you its PID.
4) get-iplayer --proxy=http://(proxy.address.if.you.use.any) --verbose --get (PID) --output "(/download/folder/)"
*without parenthesis
5) It will download the show. For me, if I use the same proxy server, which is free and slow, on iPlayer site, it takes forever to download. But with get-iplayer, it's a breeze!

More detailed explanation can be consulted using get-iplayer --help or visit get-iplayer page.