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BBC World Service

BBC World Service

Everyone
Rating
V4.7.7
Version
1M+
Installs
4.10
1.1k + Reviews
1
9%
2
5%
3
6%
4
12%
5
68%

Review By AppsWm

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✨ Awareness points

The app provides access to global news and audio content. Consider how much time you dedicate to consuming news and whether it aligns with your intentions for a balanced digital life.

  • Are you consuming news reactively or proactively?
  • Is it adding value to your day or causing unnecessary stress?

⏱️ Present moments

While listening to live radio or podcasts, focus on the present moment. Notice the sounds, the speaker's voice, and the information being conveyed.

Mindful Listening

Engage with the content in a way that promotes understanding and reduces mental clutter.

🤔 Conscious features

Explore the app settings to customize your experience. Can you set time limits for usage, or schedule news consumption for specific times of the day?

  • Access to diverse perspectives.
  • Potential for learning and growth.
  • Risk of information overload.
  • Potential for increased anxiety.

🧘 Mindful aspects

Pause and reflect on how the news content affects your emotions and thoughts. If certain topics trigger negative reactions, consider limiting your exposure to them.

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." - Eckhart Tolle

🎯 Intentional design

The app's design encourages easy access to information. Use this power intentionally. Choose specific articles or programs that align with your learning goals or personal interests.

Intentional Use Potential Benefit
Focused listening to a single podcast. Deeper understanding of a topic.
Reading articles related to a specific region. Increased cultural awareness.

🌿 Overall mindful value

This application has the potential to be a source of valuable information and global perspectives. However, it's crucial to use it consciously and intentionally to avoid information overload and promote mental well-being.

Final verdict

Use the app as a tool for mindful engagement with the world, rather than a source of constant stimulation.

Description

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). - Listen to your favorite radio programmes free with the audio player, or by using the standard-rate telephone dial-up service. For EU users only: If you choose to receive customized ads, a unique identifier (Google Advertising ID or Apples 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. 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.

All Versions

V4.7.7

Updated: 2024-2-21

48.86 MB

V4.7.2

Updated: 2024-1-10

47.88 MB

V4.6.4

Updated: 2023-4-9

43.42 MB

V4.6.1

Updated: 2022-11-15

43.61 MB

V4.5.3

Updated: 2021-10-20

41.7 MB

V4.5.2

Updated: 2021-7-19

41.8 MB

V4.5.1

Updated: 2021-4-13

41.9 MB

V4.5.0

Updated: 2021-2-3

41.9 MB

Summary Of User Reviews

D C
D C
July 4, 2025
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
A Google user
March 29, 2020
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
Amy Carlson Miesel
March 15, 2025
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.