Kent Radio Online: Stations Streaming Live

Published 2 October 2026

You can listen to Kent radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Kent streams BBC Radio Kent, kmfm and Heart Kent alongside local stations from Folkestone to the Isle of Sheppey and internet radio playing soul, Afrobeats and rock.

BBC and commercial

• BBC Radio Kent — the BBC's local radio station for the county.
• kmfm (Canterbury) — local radio and pop from Canterbury.
• kmfm (Medway), kmfm (Ashford) and kmfm (Maidstone) — local radio and pop for other parts of Kent.
• Heart Kent — hot adult contemporary hits.

Local and community

• 105.9 Academy FM (Folkestone) — local radio on 105.9 FM in Folkestone.
• 95.6 BRFM — adult contemporary music and local radio from the Isle of Sheppey.
• West Kent Radio — local radio for Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and West Kent.
• Radio Broadstairs — community radio from Broadstairs.
• Made in Kent Radio — pop and Top 40 hits across Kent.

Internet radio

• Soul Rhythms Radio UK — soul, neo soul, R&B, jazz, reggae and house.
• Power Ace Radio — Afrobeats, reggae, soul, jazz and world music.
• GlitterBeam Radio — LGBTQ+ pop, dance and hits.
• Radio Jupiter — adult contemporary, pop and rock.
• Kaos Sound — rock.

The sound of the county

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones were both born in Dartford, and the jazz-tinged progressive rock of Soft Machine and Caravan became known as the Canterbury scene. In the 1960s the pirate station Radio 390 broadcast from Red Sands, a wartime sea fort in the Thames Estuary off the north Kent coast. UK radio, progressive rock radio and pirate radio history go further.

Listening from elsewhere

Kent keeps UK time — GMT in winter and an hour ahead (BST) in summer.

A route in

1. BBC Radio Kent, for local news.
2. kmfm (Canterbury), for local pop.
3. Soul Rhythms Radio UK, for soul.

Up the Thames, London radio online is next.