BBC Sounds: Radio & Podcasts

British Broadcasting Corporation

About this app

BBC Sounds is the new way to listen to BBC audio – your favourite programmes, podcasts, radio stations and music all in one place.

Explore a wide variety of new podcasts, music mixes and live sets. Listen live to BBC radio stations. Catch up or listen again to your favourite BBC radio shows.

Features include:
‐ Listen live to all BBC Radio stations
‐ Continue listening from where you left off on any device
‐ Autoplay multiple episodes of series or podcasts
‐ Subscribe to BBC podcasts, mixes and programmes
‐ See the latest episodes from your favourite programmes and podcasts in one handy list
‐ Get personalised recommendations to discover new audio you’ll love
‐ Browse by speech and music categories

To give you the best personalised experience, this app tracks what you’ve listened to on BBC Sounds and how long you’ve listened to programmes for. It also tracks when you add something to Bookmarks or Subscriptions. You can switch this feature off by signing into your BBC account and turning off “Allow Personalisation”, more information can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/account/about-your-personalisation-settings/.

For more information about how and why we use information about you, please visit the BBC Sounds TV Privacy Notice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/about-bbc-sounds-and-our-policies/sounds-tv-privacy-notice

To read the BBC’s Privacy Policy go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/

If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/

The app is published by BBC Media AT (BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
Full details of BBC Media AT are available on the Companies House website at: http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/doc/company/07100235 BBC © 2020

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/web/links/

Ratings and reviews

The latest version of BBC Sounds, 0.6.4, kept FAILING to install no matter how many times I attempted to do so. I tried clearing the Play Store cache, data, as well as restarting my device, but it STILL wouldn't install. I had to UNINSTALL it first, then REINSTALL. I now have the latest version.

For the amount of effort they put into advertising it, it would be good if it actually worked on Chromecast with TV. But since February 2025, there's always "a temporary problem" error 2100 or 3100 which never gets fixed.

There are no Subtitles. I understand it s radio but surely on this app, transcribe the on demand shows for deaf people as after all they can read it on the screen after it was aired live.