


Navigating through the app is very pleasing, with a beautifully implemented dialler wheel providing you with access to your favorite radio stations at the bottom of the screen.

When listening live you can keep up to speed with what has been played, interact with shows as they happen and share content via social networks. You can use the app to listen to live broadcasts from any of the BBC’s numerous radio stations, but the catchup service – which can be used to listen to any programme from the last seven days – is something that is going to go down very well with users. BBC iPlayer Radio is along very much the same lines, but this time with radio in mind. The BBC’s iPlayer app proved very popular with mobile users, making it easy to access the most recent television broadcasts from mobile devices. This is far from common these days, with smartphone now being able to access online radio stations through other means. It used to be the case that a few mobile phone models included an FM radio, with headphones acting as an aerial.
