There have been rumours about the possibility of BBC Sounds being restricted to use in the UK for some time.
The BBC has now clarified the issue.
From ‘early spring’, BBC Sounds will no longer operate outside the UK, unless you are a UK resident in which case it will work ‘for a short while’.
From then on, potential listeners outside the UK will be able to listen to live broadcasts from Radio 4 and BBC World Service via the BBC.com app or BBC.com website. ‘Listen Again’ will not be available on these platforms - live only.
In true W1 style, this is all being done to ‘enhance the listener experience’ among other reasons.
You can read one of the BBC’s many (sometimes contradictory) statements here.
Thank goodness for Radio France and France Musique
Looks like it but it rather depends how clever the BBC are with their locks as to how successful VPNs will be. I’ve never felt the need for one before - who would you recommend?
b.t.w the CR-V now has an Android Auto screen and reversing camera
I am delighted it is still going - well done. I would love to have another CRV at some point - it is a shame they stopped making that model, on a recent trip back from uk i certainly missed its load lugging ability!
For the last couple of days I’ve seen banners on the BBC R2 site.
I listen to R2 each day & can not have a second VPN on my computer & I can not change the VPN setting on it.
Many years ago I recall having an app or website that I could listen to all BBC radio programs even sport. Does anyone know of one?
French radio stations for me are limited to politics, debates culture & when driving.
I usually use the TuneIn App to listen to the radio but I listen to some programmes on BBC Sounds when travelling in the car. My Roberts wifi radio stopped picking up the BBC when they changed the format.
I’m with Surfshark. I used to have a very good deal that fell off the back of a lorry but it expired and couldn’t be renewed. But I was so pleased with it, I went with them anyway. Think I paid €70 for 2½ years.
I think I must be missing something here. If radio is still available on bbc.com what is the problem? Is it that there’s no listen again facility? I just went on there to have a look and there’s certainly the ability to listen to previous programmes at the moment
I think the ability to listen to previous programmes is going to disappear.
Don’t know what I’m going to talk about if I can no longer complain about how atrocious The Archers has become (am usually cycling on Sunday mornings so I rely on the catchup service for the omnibus edition).
So frustrating (if true). Radio 3 has a programme called Through the Night where they play excellent and varied classical music, and entire pieces (which they increasingly don’t during the day). It has been a place where we have found lesser known composers and OH has then bought CDs of their work.
At the moment we can catch up during the day. It will be a great shame if we can’t in future.
Like so many organisations these days, the BBC seems intent on destroying itself.
So it’s not Sounds itself that’s the problem, more that listen again will go? It’s certainly on their other platform at the moment. I like, from time to time, to catch up with programmes like “Thinking Allowed” or Mark Steel’s series but I’m listening to really old ones!
Looking again at the BBC’s explanation BBC podcasts and audio are now available on BBC.com it does seem that they are restricting overseas listeners to specific genres rather than just live stuff. There is mention of archive and series material being available but that some(?) music will not be.
So @Helenochka 's Archers listening should be unaffected!
Oversees listeners will be restricted to live BBC Radio4, BBC World Service (without the ‘listen again’ facility) and some podcasts. Radio 2, 3, 4Extra etc will not be available. So, according to the BBC’s announcement, Archers catch-ups will no longer be possible.
All this clever stuff goes over my head but does that mean that we will not be able to listen to The Archers on the podcast later then?
As regards the plotlines, I too get furious with some, the injustice metered out to a young lad blamed for causing an accident was simply not true. The drunken women who he was driving home to stop her driving caused it by trying to get out of the car while it was moving. He then did something very stupid by moving her into the driving seat before much later owning up to it. But not one person thereafter mentioned his original good deed.
There you go for all the micky takers. High drama to get the blood rushing.
The Archers Podcast appears to feature members of the production team discussing issues relating to the programme and may well be available to listeners outside the UK on the new BBC com App (not BBC sounds as that will only be available in the UK).
The daily episodes of The Archers (and the Sunday omnibus) are broadcast on Radio 4, so should be available outside the UK, live on the Radio 4 stream on the new BBC com app - note live, not on listen again.
