You can listen to BBC Radio using BBC iPlayer through your computer, your mobile phone or your games console.

See the BBC Help site for other ways of listening to BBC Radio, including Internet Radio devices and downloading or subscribing to free podcasts. If you're new computing, you find this BBC Webwise guide to radio on BBC websites useful.

On iPlayer, all of our BBC Radio stations are available to “listen live” and the majority of our programmes are available on demand for seven days after broadcast.

Streaming

When listening live or on demand to BBC Radio you will need to be connected to the internet – this is streaming. Your device will also need to have Flash installed.

We do not currently offer BBC Radio programmes for download via iPlayer Desktop Manager.

Where possible, we offer high-quality audio streams however, we apprieciate that internet connections can be inconsistent at times. If you experience buffering when playing one of our streams, try selecting the lower bandwidth option at the bottom of the console.

Listening to radio

There's two simple ways of picking the radio station or programme you want to listen to.

1)    Go to the Radio homepage on iPlayer

2)    Type the station or programme name into the search box

When you select a station or programme to listen to a pop-out console will open and automatically start playing.

In the console you can also favourite programmes, edit stations and both make and see recommendations.

If you have any more questions about BBC iPlayer the menu categories to the left provide more information; otherwise try typing your question or related key words into the search box above.

For detailed issues about BBC iPlayer, please read our FAQ; Where can I go to discuss BBC iPlayer? - which lists active messageboards where users raise, discuss and advise on common issues and problems.

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