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BBC Sounds: Radio & Podcasts

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.
  • Pause and rewind live radio, see past and future station schedules.
  • Download and listen to your shows on the go.
  • Continue listening from where you left off on any device.
  • Autoplay multiple episodes of series or podcasts or all your downloads (optional).
  • 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.
  • Send music tracks you like to Apple Music and Spotify.
  • Browse by speech and music categories.
  • Sleep Timer.
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Free or paid:

  • Free

Accessibility and User Comments:

Accessibility status:

Fully accessible.

Accessibility and user comments:

The app is fully accessible with TalkBack, with no unlabeled buttons.

Accessibility support is explicitly mentioned in the app's description, and the app even provides TalkBack actions in many places. For instance, one can expand or collapse info and programs for each radio channel via TalkBack actions. You need to create an account first, or log in via your account. The account-related operations as well as resetting the password, if necessary, are done via your web browser, and everything else is handled by the app itself. BBC Sounds displays 5 tabs at the bottom of the screen: Home, Music, Podcasts, My sounds, and Search. The Home tab displays all radio channels along with their schedules which can be expanded, activated or skipped, again via TalkBack actions.

Last Tested App version and Android version:

App version: 2.15.1.20683. Android14

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Amir Soleimani

I'm a translator, interpreter and tutor, accessibility blogger and advocate, long-time Windows/Symbian/iOS user and tester, and now an Android explorer.

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