diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/britishcouncil.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/britishcouncil.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6afe6b61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/britishcouncil.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .viddler import ViddlerBaseIE
+
+
+class BritishCouncilIE(ViddlerBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?(?:learnenglish\.)?britishcouncil.org/(?P<id>.*)'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/episode-01-they-meet',
+        'md5': '796e9c4fa07017e3da79d5e99ef36fe8',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '34d5e84c',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'StartingOut.s01e01',
+            'upload_date': '20160927',
+            'uploader': 'BCLearnenglish',
+            'timestamp': 1474975664,
+            'view_count': int,
+            'comment_count': int,
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        display_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
+        video_id = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'data-video-id=([\'"])(?P<id>[^\'"]+)\1',
+            webpage, 'video ID', group='id', default=None)
+        return self._extract_viddler_info(url, video_id, None)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index 4b3092028..58e2d0514 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ from .brightcove import (
     BrightcoveLegacyIE,
     BrightcoveNewIE,
 )
+from .britishcouncil import BritishCouncilIE
 from .businessinsider import BusinessInsiderIE
 from .buzzfeed import BuzzFeedIE
 from .byutv import BYUtvIE