[Opera-Linux] How to make Opera believe my location is the UK?

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello everyone,

This year I enjoyed much to follow the Formula 1 season, and I have
one problem with it: I have a TV set (actually I borrow it for the
day), but I have no access to Eurosport and thus I cannot follow the
Saturday Qualifications for each Grand Prix. I can follow them live
using the official Formula 1 website [1]. There are, however, no live
commentaries (live as in voice).

I searched a bit on the Internet and found the BBC Radio Station [2].
I have one single technical problem with it: it's "Available Online
(UK Only)". So, my question:

Is there a way to make Opera believe that I am located in
the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment
variables (on Gentoo Linux):
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to Opera. Maybe
someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites
proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your
location? For example, when accessing
http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox,net , it indicates me immediately
and correctly from what country I am accessing the site. When I enter
my IP address in the "CountryWhois" box, it is unable to identify my
coordonates.

[1] http://www.formula1.com/services/live_timing/
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/sportsextra/schedule.shtml

Any suggestions - especially by Saturday :) - are welcome,
Liviu