To think the BBC Radio app is AWESOME

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I've just really appreciated how brilliant the BBC Radio app is, after getting a Bluetooth speaker for the bedroom. Its Awesome!

Its got a wake up alarm that works beautifully (radio 3just before the wake up light comes on) a sleep feature that means no more disturbed nights getting subliminally scared by the world service!) And all the radio stations even regional, and 6music, and all the catch up radio including an amazing proper detailed insight into the poultry industry that was supremely enlightening to the foodie me!

Anyone else think this?/ its amazing that we as a country are still so ahead of broadcasting with an intelligence based primary media..I am quite proud of being British :)

That was a lovely gentle way to waken up instead of the shrill berp of the alarm.
I usually have World Service on when falling asleep ( or Planet Rock, depends on my mood) via the tv, but woke up to radio 4 today.
Ive never downloaded any of the progs to listen to, usually use the catch up but radio catch up isnt available on my tv

If anyone hasn't heard it , listen on carch up to Edwina Curry on Womans Hour.
Remove anything breakable from your vicinity first.

Yes Rats, I listened to that with my gob hanging open!

She is good value though 😀

Anyone got a link to the app? Working off inept phone.

tell me more about the kind of speaker...

I have a mini wireless speaker, but it has to be turned on and the computer sound output set to the speaker, for it to work (and because it runs on charge, I don't just leave it on all the time, because most of the time at the computer, I don't need sound). Plus I don't think I can link a wireless one to my phone. So you use a bluetooth one, and just leave it on and bluetooth-connected all the time?

The other thing is, I use my phone as a wake-up alarm (one of those gradual ones that measures your sleep movements), and as that means it's under my pillow, I turn it to airplane mode as I'm a bit worried about all the signals being emitted. And presumably, that will also turn off bluetooth, won't it? I wonder if I could tell Siri to turn off the airplane mode at a certain time, and reconnect to bluetooth?!

I don't get radio reception in the house, and so I got out of the habit of radio entirely, and even once internet radio became a possibility, I never really got into it, but I miss having it in the background the way we did at home as a child.

www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts

Sorry,mcannot find direct link, I am on iPad and it just goes directly to store

I've deleted my tuneup radio app because I only listen to bbc stuff. It really is ace.

Could really do with some advice on the next kitchen radio I buy please.

Just read this thread and downloaded the BBC app on my phone so I am now set up for the car. Got Gardeners Question Time and Archers Omnibus ready. I'm thrilled with that.

I need to buy a new Radio CD player for the kitchen. If I buy one that says Internet on it can I download this app or the I player and use it for catchup direct on the radio? Or does Internet mean live streaming only?

Confused but sadly excited by the possibilities 😆

YANBU. As my name suggests I've been listening to a shedload of Round The Horne over the last few months since the new download friendly app launched. It's absolutely brilliant. Also loads of Goons, Men From the Ministry, Sorry I'll Read That Again, Hancock but RTH is head and shoulders above them all.

And Old Harry's Game, Masterson Inheritance, And Now In Colour, Elvenquest, Bleak Expectations from the modern era, and Proust, Le Carre, CP Snow, Neil Gaiman, Agatha Christie, John Fowles, John Galsworthy.... All the Bowie documentaries, the Pet Shop Boys documentaries...Can you tell I have quite a long commute?