BBC national and local radio HLS streams

Updated 2025-02-02 19:53 UTC

These are the BBC’s HLS radio streams. If these do not work for you, then you may wish to try the alternative DASH streams. The conventional wisdom is that HLS is for Apple users and DASH is for Windows and Android. Of course, if you run a modern GNU/Linux operating system, and have installed all the necessary CODECs, then you may use either. In fact, on most devices regardless of their operating systems, you just need to install VLC, if you haven’t done so already. 🙂

BBC World Service
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_world_service%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC 1Xtra
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_1xtra%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 1
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_one%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 1 Dance
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_one_dance%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 2
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_two%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 3
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_three%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 4 FM
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_fourfm%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 4 Extra
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_four_extra%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 5 live
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_five_live%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio 6 Music
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_6music%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Asian Network
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_asian_network%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Berkshire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_berkshire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Bristol
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_bristol%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Cambridge
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_cambridge%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Cornwall
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_cornwall%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_coventry_warwickshire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Cumbria
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_cumbria%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Cymru
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_cymru%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Cymru 2
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_cymru_2%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Derby
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_derby%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Devon
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_devon%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Essex
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_essex%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Foyle
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_foyle%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC BBC Hereford Worcester
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_hereford_worcester%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_gloucestershire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Guernsey
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_guernsey%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Humberside
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_humberside%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Jersey
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_jersey%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Kent
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_kent%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Lancashire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_lancashire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Leeds
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_leeds%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Leicester
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_leicester%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_lincolnshire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio London
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_london%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Manchester
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_manchester%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Merseyside
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_merseyside%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_nan_gaidheal%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Newcastle
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_newcastle%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Norfolk
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_norfolk%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Northampton
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_northampton%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Nottingham
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_nottingham%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Orkney
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_orkney%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Oxford
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_oxford%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Scotland FM
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_scotland_fm%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Scotland MW
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_scotland_mw%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Sheffield
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_sheffield%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Shropshire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_shropshire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Solent
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_solent%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Solent West Dorset
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_solent_west_dorset%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Somerset Sound
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_somerset_sound%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Stoke
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_stoke%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Suffolk
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_suffolk%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Surrey
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_surrey%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Sussex
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_sussex%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Tees
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_tees%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Ulster
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_ulster%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Wales
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_wales_fm%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio Wiltshire
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_wiltshire%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC – Radio WM
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_wm/bbc_wm.isml%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Radio York
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_york%22&bitrate=320000%22
BBC Three Counties Radio
https://lstn.lv/bbcradio.m3u8?station=bbc_three_counties_radio%22&bitrate=320000%22

About BBC HLS Streams

The BBC’s http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/ shoutcast type radio streams were discontinued in 2023. Moreover all the old HLS streams have gone too. Seems Aunty Beeb wants folks to use its dreadful website instead. However its HLS streams are still available. These are the BBC’s high quality 320kb/s audio streams, using Apple’s proprietary HLS (hypertext transfer protocol live streaming) format. Basically this chops the stream into tiny files, and stitches them together again once they have got through various firewalls etc. These are particularly appropriate for mobile devices.