Global Player Radio & Podcasts

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About this app

Welcome to Global Player, the award-winning home of UK radio stations, including Smooth, Gold Radio, Classic FM, Heart, LBC, Radio X, and Capital.

Global Player is the ultimate live radio app for streaming the best UK radio stations from Global such as Capital & Heart, offering a diverse range of music & audio for every listener. Whether you're looking to tune in to your favourite radio station, or explore UK hit music, the Global Player app brings together the best of UK radio in one seamless experience, with access to Global’s greatest UK radio stations and exclusive shows.

The Official Global Player app is home to:

📻Capital, Capital Anthems, Capital XTRA, Capital XTRA Reloaded, Capital Dance, Capital Chill & Capital Scotland
📻Heart, Heart 70’s, Heart 80’s, Heart 90’s, Heart 00’s, Heart 10’s, Heart Dance, Heart Musicals, Heart Love, Heart Xmas & Heart Scotland
📻LBC, LBC News
📻Smooth, Smooth Relax, Smooth Chill, Smooth Country, Smooth Soul, Smooth 70’s & 80’s and Smooth Christmas
📻Gold Radio
📻Classic FM, Classic FM Movies & Classic FM Calm
📻Radio X, Radio X 90’s, Radio X 00’s, Radio X Chilled, Radio X Classic Rock
🎙️Podcasts like The News Agents,

📻 Tune in to dab radio & FM radio to stream, listen & enjoy the greatest hits on UK radio stations! Browse live radio channels, curated playlists and a wide library of on-demand podcasts, all in one place. Global Player is the go-to radio streaming app for audio entertainment and radio lovers across the UK.

🎵 Stream and download original Global hit podcasts such as The News Agents, My Therapist Ghosted Me, The Sports Agents, LuAnna, and Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files. Catch up on other popular podcasts such as Diary of a CEO, The Rest is Politics & Off Menu.

YOUR PERSONAL HOMEPAGE

Global Player features a personalised homepage where you can set your favourite UK radio stations and catch up on anything you’ve missed on live radio. Receive personalised music and podcasts, curated playlists and stay up to date with the latest news. Global Player is designed to provide you with more than just radio; it’s an all-in-one audio entertainment with podcasts, videos, and playlists all available in one place.

TAKE CONTROL

Tune in to our array of UK radio stations and listen to live radio or rewind to your favourite song. You can also listen to the music you want, with the ability to skip any songs you’re not vibing with - there’s no limit (for UK listeners). You can like and dislike songs to keep getting more of the music you love. For the greatest hits on UK radio and non-stop audio entertainment, choose Global Player.

CATCH UP

Global Player allows you to tune in & catch up on the greatest hits from your favourite UK radio stations & shows from the last seven days. You can listen back or download them for offline listening when you’re on the move. You can also discover and download the most popular podcasts, such as The News Agents, Diary of a CEO or The Rest is Politics or dive into our expertly curated collections. Whether you're on the go or relaxing at home, Global Player gives you access to everything from chart music to exclusive interviews and podcasts.

FURTHER INFORMATION

We have a variety of radio stations available such as: Heart Radio, Heart FM, Capital Radio, Capital FM, Smooth Radio, Gold Music & Smooth FM. Get personalised updates, listen again to your favourite moments, and enjoy audio content that spans music, talk radio and entertainment!

Global Player radio, podcasts & playlists for every you!

Ratings and reviews

Updating my review. Still 1 star. Constantly crashes to the point of being unusable. Complains about no connection when there clearly is. Have to close and reopen at least once an hour. Live pause - useless. Dear Global Management team, if you are reading this will you please do yourselves a favour and start from scrtch with a different app development team so you have an app which reflects the quality of your radio stations. I don't have any of these issues with BBC Sounds or YouTube.

Increasingly unstable. The app closes for no reason at least once a day, live radio video broadcasts crash through transmission. Podcasts will suddenly lose all sound. Considering the size of the organisation and how long people have had these issues, I am surprised it's still not improving. On radio broadcasts with full video (I.e Moyles birthday show) it was impossible to watch as the video crashed every few minutes.

The individual apps were always real finicky to get to work. So the fact they have just stuck to one app for every Global radio station is a great idea, since Global Player app works so much better than the individual apps ever did! I can actually listen on both WiFi and Mobile Data with no problems, it's fast and easy to use, great to listen to Heart or any other Global station on the go. (especially Heart Scotland, which I can't pick up in my area for obvious reasons 😅)

What’s new

Bug fixes and general improvements. Fix included for some users who had experienced performance issues.