Metropol

Does anyone know if the BBC have any searchable feeds or APIs for its audio/video search engine? I was hoping to build some sort of working model of the newsgrid shtuff I was experimenting with over at TVFs mocks forum, but I'm hitting a bit of a crippling obstacle here. Seeing as I'm not wanting to screen scrape, does anyone know of any hidden lurking APIs or anything I can (ab)use, without having to suck up to the lovely Backstage folk?