BBC Sounds Reviews

by Nitram99

BBCSounds has the worst interface. Navigation is scattered all over the place. Options to create and delete bookmarks and subscriptions are inconsistent. It takes two or more clicks for play to work. Episodes are listed sometimes by date, sometimes alphabetically. And BBCSounds has its own favorite places. Find something you want to listen to and step away for five minutes; BBCSounds will have changed back to a different page. And why can’t I bookmark a program before it is broadcast? Plus, no volume control?!!!

by Thesuperalice

An excellent app with a great UI.

It does keep crashing the first—and sometimes second and third—time I launch it, though. I eventually get it open, but it’s a pain to have to keep opening it ‘til it works.

Would be a five-star review otherwise.

by Dr Kehinde Ladipo

I enjoy Americast….... very informal but highly analytical and logical from informed persons
The latest podcast on Afghanistan was a great welcome surprise. We all forget often that nothing lasts forever so is the America’s longest war. The longer things last the more our intentions get diluted. The decision to withdraw was a no brainer and whatever you think of the implementation no plan will come without serious issues. History will tell but there are lessons for all, the powerful and the meek, the resolve of each groups involved. People of Afghanistan are at the crossroads and only they can decide what to do next. What ever they decide will surely reverberate across the world, perhaps soon. Seems to me that the Talibans don’t forget

World of Wisdom was an encounter for me a few nights ago when I woke up in the middle of my sleep with my phone on. Excellent and wise advise to real life situations and real persons. The relief from their worries were obvious. Life lessons are individual, however if these podcasts can be shared more to many, the impact will surely be far reaching which I hope is one of the aims

Business Daily is a great program. Contemporary! Helps to make meanings of current directions. Businesses and Leaders can learn greatly from the views expressed, perhaps more than theories from business schools

by Brasserielaboyere

Menu is much more cumbersome to navigate, programming menu shows less, and less useful, information than the old app. Altogether this is a clumsy app and definitely not an improvement.

by Manal.21sinha

Really like BBCSounds overall and the interface. Just two feature requests: 1. Please add the ability to create your own queue of episodes from different podcasts, rather than automatically create a queue of unplayed episodes of the same podcast. That would be great for situations where you want to queue up multiple episodes for a long journey or something similar 2. For podcasts, map the default actions for the "Previous" and "Next" buttons on a Bluetooth headset or CarPlay to actually skip 20 seconds backwards/forwards, because that is what I actually want to do for a 30-60 min long podcast, instead of start from the very beginning or abruptly start playing whatever's next. Thanks!

by TightGroove

BBCSounds started re-playing automatically every time I got a call or watched a video instead of my having to open it back up and press play again, this would be a 5-star review!

by Appleorange345

The only improvements that come to mind are a larger image of the musical artist/album cover when a song is playing. Making that photo a link to an artist’s profile or material would be good too.

by Persol19

I would love to listen to Annie or Pete while I run without my phone so a watch app would be amazing. I’d also love to download the shows in the US.

I miss the fill in search history and the darker theme of the old app.

by WhatDoYoWant

Visually - too busy, too many images, overly concentrated on young. Very frustrating for foreign users because programs that cannot be played outside of UK are not marked so; you only find out when you want to start listening to a program- sorry!…. And PLEASE always show the total number of episodes! I like to listen to the entire program, when all parts are available. (For example part 1 of 12) Most of the programs are great, good quality

by Cfc51961

I keep getting the error message “There was a problem during loading.” I have uninstalled and reinstalled BBCSounds a few times. Disappointing.

by Coup De Nord

Using BBCSounds to access back numbers of in our time. Look forward to checking out some other programs.

by Gbmodelr2

Please add an alarm feature so that you can have a podcast or music or radio station play at a certain time.

by Ordinary Wonder

Every program is blocked in the US in 5 Live. Even the late night/early morning talk shows. I can no longer listen to Dotun’s show live. What gives?

by Ben-bowinn

I would to be able to comment on your shows from BBCSounds

by Lion And Eagle

Anything and everything at your thumb tips. Radio 6 makes me happy at least three times a day

by LuFlVi

The shows are great. My favorites are the science interesting stuff and comedies. But they changed the availability and some of my fav shows are only accesible from the Uk only (like The curious cases of Rutherford & Fry) that I would love to hear again or share some specific episodes with friends and I can’t anymore.

by Suresh1234

BBCSounds presently is not recording news on the hour & news based programs like Newshour for listening later on. This is going on for last two weeks. I am surprised that it’s not fixed. Support, please look into this. Thanks.

by The One122

I love BBCSounds! From sports to news to other interesting programming, BBCSounds reigns supreme. No ads, high quality curated content, and a really well thought out user interface make this one of the best apps out there. Great for all people of all ages.

by SacredFig

When you know that is user is an international user, please do not show them programs that are not available to international users. This just becomes frustrating.

by Igotnothin'

Great little documentaries that make for excellent education and listening. Great production and I look forward to downloading more in the future. Appreciate all you do! Keep up the great journalism.

by Dhshsvebd

As most already appreciate, iPlayer was fantastic. Easy to search, use, download, enjoy. BBC sounds is not. Must be a reason we’re unaware of for the change as it certainly isn’t for the purpose of making the listening experience more enjoyable.

by Major Taylor

Sadly, it won’t work most of the time. Says it’s not working, try again over and over again. I loved iPlayer and I deleted it for the new sounds app. Please fix the glitches!!

by Nclpc

I downloaded BBCSounds as the bbc radio iplayer is due to close in November 2020. I’ve found the iplayer app to be robust with no issues but the new BBC Sounds constantly (every few minutes) and suddenly crashes. Grrrrr!

by Me.Rj1

Just not a good dashboard layout. The BBC iPlayer was near perfect why would you mess that up? Yes I’m old and cranky but this new app is just a train wreck. Look at the layout of the old iPlayer, copy and paste it to the new player and it will be a winner.

by C&TC

Works great on iOS but doesn’t work at all well on CarPlay. Blank screen then stops playing, have to resort to running it on iPhone

by E.neruda

The BBC in all its splendour available in the US at last. A proper evolutionary leap from previous iterations of the platform...now having completed this gem, let’s get to work on the options for access to the tele as well...

by Captarne1

I listen to the BBC every night when going to bed. I can’t miss “ I’m sorry I’ll read that again “,. During my time in the Merchant Marine the BBC world service was what we listened to at sea.