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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">BBC Sounds</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption">Logo used since 2021</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">25 June 2018<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2018-06-25</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, <a href="Scala_(programming_language)" title="Scala (programming language)">Scala</a>, <a href="Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift</a>, <a href="Kotlin_(programming_language)" title="Kotlin (programming language)">Kotlin</a><sup id="cite_ref-sounds-on-the-web_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sounds-on-the-web-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Web_application" title="Web application">Web</a>, <a href="Amazon_Echo" title="Amazon Echo">Amazon Echo</a>, <a href="IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a>, <a href="Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, <a href="Fire_OS" title="Fire OS">Fire OS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>, <a href="Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a>, <a href="Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Media_player_software" title="Media player software">Media player software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds">www<wbr>.bbc<wbr>.co<wbr>.uk<wbr>/sounds</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p><b>BBC Sounds</b> is an <a href="Over-the-top_media_service" title="Over-the-top media service">over-the-top</a> audio <a href="Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">streaming</a> and download service from the <a href="BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> that includes <a href="Live_radio" title="Live radio">live radio</a> broadcasts, <a href="Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">audio on demand</a>, and <a href="Podcast" title="Podcast">podcasts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-reg_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reg-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The service is available on a wide range of devices, including mobile phones and tablets, personal computers, cars, and smart televisions. As of 21 July 2025, BBC Sounds is only available for UK-based listeners and doesn't feature commercial advertising; international listeners can find <a href="BBC_Radio" title="BBC Radio">BBC Radio</a> stations and podcasts on the BBC.com website and app.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service">Service</h2></div>
<p>The BBC Sounds website replaced the <a href="BBC_iPlayer" title="BBC iPlayer">iPlayer</a> Radio service for UK users in October 2018. An initial beta version of the BBC Sounds app was launched in June 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with both the new app and the iPlayer Radio app supported until September 2019, when the iPlayer Radio app was finally decommissioned in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 22 September 2020, BBC Sounds has been available to international users; it replaced BBC iPlayer Radio for international audiences at the end of October 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in February 2025, the BBC announced that international access to the World Service and Radio 4 was now available on the bbc.com website and the BBC app, and that international access to the BBC Sounds website and app would be removed later that Spring.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan received backlash by its listeners, both from listeners of the radio stations abroad as well as listeners from the Republic of Ireland, with one listener claiming that it could potentially violate the Good Friday Agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 18 April 2025, the BBC announced that it has postponed the changes while it worked on a plan to make its other radio stations, including its music radio stations (such as Radios 1, 2, and 3) and its regional and local stations, to be available outside of BBC Sounds, although the BBC will "prioritise countries where demand for the BBC's audio services is highest".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The BBC later shut down international service for non-U.K. listeners on 21 July 2025, although access to radio stations remained available, but with live radio only.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>An app for Connected TVs (including <a href="Amazon_Fire_TV" title="Amazon Fire TV">Amazon Fire TV</a>) was released in March 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An Apple <a href="TvOS" title="TvOS">tvOS</a> app is also in development. BBC Sounds differs from iPlayer Radio by acting as a place for original podcast material created by the BBC specifically for the app in addition to live and catch-up listening of its linear radio services. One example of this is the <i><a href="Beyond_Today_(podcast)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beyond Today (podcast)">Beyond Today</a></i> podcast, a daily online-only 17 minute podcast produced by the <i><a href="Today_(BBC_Radio_4)" title="Today (BBC Radio 4)">Today</a></i> team, exploring an issue in-depth with a younger audience in mind.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The BBC has also announced plans to make podcasts from third-party producers available within the BBC Sounds service.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>At launch the BBC Sounds service caused controversy amongst some users of the former iPlayer Radio app, who claimed that the functionality did not have the same features as before, objected to the login requirements, and raised concerns that the new app was no longer supported on older versions of smartphones. Some broadsheet newspapers have claimed that these changes disproportionately affect older listeners, particularly those who listen to speech and comedy content on <a href="BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2></div>
<p>An early web prototype led by BBC employee Jason Williams surfaced in 2014 called <a href="BBC_Radio_Explorer" title="BBC Radio Explorer">BBC Radio Explorer</a>. The web app allowed users to listen to different content across the BBC including podcasts, shows, clips within the same UI. Later on the full development of Sounds began from the same team.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>BBC Sounds on the web was built from the ground up with <a href="Node.js" title="Node.js">Node.js</a>, <a href="React_(JavaScript_library)" class="mw-redirect" title="React (JavaScript library)">React</a>, <a href="Redux_(JavaScript_library)" title="Redux (JavaScript library)">Redux</a>, and <a href="Express.js" title="Express.js">Express.js</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sounds-on-the-web_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sounds-on-the-web-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mobile applications were written in <a href="Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift</a> for iOS, and in <a href="Kotlin_(programming_language)" title="Kotlin (programming language)">Kotlin</a> for Android. The apps were released on 26 June 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before the website had any 'Sounds' branding, in order to gain early feedback.
</p><p>App features include the ability to look up station schedules, download and share media,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> rewind live radio,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and listen in-car via either <a href="Android_Auto" title="Android Auto">Android Auto</a> or <a href="Apple_CarPlay" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple CarPlay">Apple CarPlay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Both the website and the apps are served with data from a single set of APIs called Radio and Music Services, or RMS,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Microservices" title="Microservices">microservices</a> built in the <a href="Scala_(programming_language)" title="Scala (programming language)">Scala</a> programming language. This single source of data replaces a large number of different services that powered earlier incarnations of the radio products.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="U_(streaming_service)" title="U (streaming service)">U</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Select_(streaming_service)" title="BBC Select (streaming service)">BBC Select (streaming service)</a></li>
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<li><a href="BBC_Player" title="BBC Player">BBC Player</a> (for Singapore and Malaysia only)</li>
<li><a href="BBC_Three_(streaming_service)" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Three (streaming service)">BBC Three (streaming service)</a></li>
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<li><a href="BBC_Bangla" title="BBC Bangla">Bangla</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Nepali" title="BBC Nepali">Nepali</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Brasil" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Brasil">Brasil</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Hausa" title="BBC Hausa">Hausa</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Mundo" title="BBC Mundo">Mundo</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Persian" title="BBC Persian">Persian</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Russian_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Russian Service">Russian</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Ukrainian" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Ukrainian">Ukrainian</a> (Dissolved)</li>
<li><a href="BBC_Urdu" title="BBC Urdu">Urdu</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Defunct stations<br>and services</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#eee;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><b>Local services</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="2LO" title="2LO">2LO</a> London</li>
<li><a href="5IT" title="5IT">5IT</a> Birmingham</li>
<li><a href="2ZY" title="2ZY">2ZY</a> Manchester</li>
<li>5NO Newcastle</li>
<li>5WA Cardiff</li>
<li>5SC Glasgow</li>
<li><a href="2BD" title="2BD">2BD</a> Aberdeen</li>
<li><a href="6BM" title="6BM">6BM</a> Bournemouth</li>
<li>2FL Sheffield</li>
<li>5PY Plymouth</li>
<li><a href="5GB" class="mw-redirect" title="5GB">5GB</a> Daventry</li>
<li><a href="2BE_Belfast" title="2BE Belfast">2BE</a> Belfast</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#eee;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><b>Relays</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>2EH Edinburgh</li>
<li>6LV Liverpool</li>
<li>2LS Leeds and Bradford</li>
<li>6KH Hull</li>
<li>5NG Nottingham</li>
<li>2DE Dundee</li>
<li>6ST Stoke</li>
<li>5SX Swansea</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#eee;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><b>National services</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="BBC_Allied_Expeditionary_Forces_Programme" title="BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme">Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Forces_Programme" title="BBC Forces Programme">Forces Programme</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_General_Forces_Programme" title="BBC General Forces Programme">General Forces Programme</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Home_Service" title="BBC Home Service">Home Service</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Light_Programme" title="BBC Light Programme">Light Programme</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_National_Programme" title="BBC National Programme">National Programme</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Radio_1_Relax" title="BBC Radio 1 Relax">Radio 1 Relax</a> (BBC Sounds)</li>
<li><a href="Radio_4_News_FM" title="Radio 4 News FM">Radio 4 News FM</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Radio_5_(former)" title="BBC Radio 5 (former)">Radio 5</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Radio_4_Extra" title="BBC Radio 4 Extra">Radio 7</a> (rebranded)</li>
<li><a href="BBC_Regional_Programme" title="BBC Regional Programme">Regional Programme</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Third_Programme" title="BBC Third Programme">Third Programme</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="BBC_Audio_Drama_Awards" title="BBC Audio Drama Awards">Awards</a></li>
<li>Logos</li>
<li><a href="BBC_Music" title="BBC Music">BBC Music</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_National_DAB" title="BBC National DAB">National DAB multiplex</a></li>
<li>Programmes</li>
<li><a href="BBC_Radio_Explorer" title="BBC Radio Explorer">Radio Explorer</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_Radio_Orchestra" title="BBC Radio Orchestra">Radio Orchestra</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_School_Radio" title="BBC School Radio">School Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="Wartime_Broadcasting_Service" title="Wartime Broadcasting Service">Wartime Broadcasting Service</a></li></ul>
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