Access to BBC IPlayer from Sky+ HD box

[dddderrick]

My Sky+ box has ethernet connection, so I can use the catch up facility, including BBC programmes I may have missed during the past month. But I cannot get to find programmes which have not been shown on TV. An example is the the David Attenborough programme called Saving Our Wild Isles which BBC keep advertising as being available on BBC Iplayer; this 53 minute programme was not shown on BBC 1 with the 5 episodes which have been shown on BBC1 for the past five Sunday evenings. 

I know  I can stream this additional programme on a smart TV, but this would imply that the BBC Iplayer available through Sky+ HD accessess a different Iplayer than you can access through Sky+ ?    Or is my Sky+ HD box not been updated ?

Help please. Many thanks, Dave.

[Annie+UK · Accepted solution]

BBC iPlayer is an App, Sky+ does not have any apps as the tech for the box is too old, the BBC supply content for Sky's On Demand section of the Sky+ Guide, this content does not always match exactly what the iPlayer App (available on other devices) has available