BBC World Service
com.audionowdigital.player.bbcworld
by Zeno News
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About this app
The official BBC World Service news app by Zeno Media LLC offers the latest programmes and news headlines from the BBC World Service. You can to listen to the latest radio programmes using the free audio player or by using the telephone dial-up option (standard geographic mobile charges will apply. Please check with your provider for exact costs before calling).
- Read the latest news headlines from the BBC World Service website
- Listen to your favorite radio programmes free with the audio player, or by using the standard-rate telephone dial-up service.
- You can listen to the most recent editions of:
- The Global News Podcast
- Newshour
- HARDtalk
- Sport Today
- Business Daily
- Focus on Africa, and many more
For EU users only: If you choose to receive customized ads, a unique identifier (Google Advertising ID or Apple’s ID for Advertising) relating to your device will be stored by Zeno Media to provide you with the service and allow customized advertising to be served within the app.
No other Personal Data relating to you (such as a username or email address) is processed. Such information will only be processed in line with Zeno Media’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.zenomedia.com/wp-content/themes/zeno/privacy_policy.pdf
Find out about your privacy rights and the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy
Notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges. These can be reconfigured in Settings (notifications). Details of data this app collects, including the unique identifier relating to your device and your location data, is also found under Settings.
- Read the latest news headlines from the BBC World Service website
- Listen to your favorite radio programmes free with the audio player, or by using the standard-rate telephone dial-up service.
- You can listen to the most recent editions of:
- The Global News Podcast
- Newshour
- HARDtalk
- Sport Today
- Business Daily
- Focus on Africa, and many more
For EU users only: If you choose to receive customized ads, a unique identifier (Google Advertising ID or Apple’s ID for Advertising) relating to your device will be stored by Zeno Media to provide you with the service and allow customized advertising to be served within the app.
No other Personal Data relating to you (such as a username or email address) is processed. Such information will only be processed in line with Zeno Media’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.zenomedia.com/wp-content/themes/zeno/privacy_policy.pdf
Find out about your privacy rights and the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy
Notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges. These can be reconfigured in Settings (notifications). Details of data this app collects, including the unique identifier relating to your device and your location data, is also found under Settings.
App Information
Version Name
4.7.7
Version Code
2024013001
File Size
46.6 MB
Minimum OS
Android 5.0+
Target SDK
Android 33
Developer
Zeno News
Contact
Website
Content Rating
Everyone
Package Name
com.audionowdigital.player.bbcworldPermissions Required
This app may request the following permissions:
Recent Reviews
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1.0★
Pauses or stops playing after a time. Don't know how to stop this from stopping to play. Very annoying having to push play button every few minutes. Update, 2/20/25. Worked great for a long time, but now won't load, then says streaming is unavailable. Now 1 star. update 7/1/2025: was working great again for Months, but there must have been another upgrade recently that makes me have to open, close then open app again before it works.
A Google user
2.0★
Lots of audio issues! If you already have it open and are listening and want to listen to the LATEST live news, you have to close the app and relaunch it. Often even doing that won't work. What results is whatever you had been listening to, continues to play OVER the live audio. So then you have to uninstall the app and reinstall it. But again, if you make the mistake of wanting to switch from the old live news to the latest, it'll all happen all over again. I gave up! Now I just read stories!
Amy Carlson Miesel
4.0★
I depend on the BBC World Service. Most of the time, this app works flawlessly, providing this worldwide journalism with some left-leaning bias, to be sure, but still unparalleled global coverage in broadcast journalism. The app did stop working for a couple of weeks this winter. I was still able to listen live through the BBC Sounds app (also good for its search feature), but I am grateful to have this World Service app back to depend upon daily.
Zsuzsanna Paskone Gemesi
3.0★
I went from 5 stars to 3 stars. Content is still 5 stars but the app has multiple technical difficulties recently ( Sep 2025). Podcast stops around 18 mins and when I go back in, it starts with ad again and in some of the podcast you cannot roll it forward to where you were, you have to re listen the whole program again. If I pause because I want to speak to someone, etc, same happens. The podcasts are listed the wrong way, it goes into earlier instead of later episode when finished one.
James Brooks
2.0★
I'm a life-long fan of the Beeb so this current BBC World Service app is a real disappointment. I was pleased to see the option of following programs i value, but the tha case of the 'Climate Question' i'm getting a repeated 'this stream is currently unavailable' message. I also followed 'Witness History', but when a 9 minute program is preceeded and ended with trailers an unnecessary introduction, i shut the app down in frustration. Similarly with the interminably full-screen adds.
Justina Moran
5.0★
love it ! I get all. my news, world news and otherwise in one place. the BBC is the measuring stick to which all other media is measured. I hear a lot. people dissing the app. I'm in Vancouver, Canada an expat. I don't seem to have any of these problems and I agree BBC sounds was a better app but recently I think in Canada they've asked to use the other BBC app and that seems to work for me so I say still a big fan
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