Tired of Spotify’s new music suggestions or paying a little extra each month for a music streaming service? Here’s a great free alternative that everyone needs on their phone’s home screen: It is BBC Sounds.
You can use it to listen to a live stream of any BBC radio station – this includes Radio 1 to 6, the BBC World Service, any local station, and many more. Alternatively, if you’re busy when a particular programme you want to hear is live, you can scroll through the archive of recent programmes and listen to it afterwards.
And like Spotify, if you’re worried about a slow connection, you can download a show and listen to it when offline. The show will remain downloaded for up to 30 days after it first airs, and you can listen to it at any time during that period.