London Radio Online: London Stations, Streaming Live

Updated 6 October 2026

You can listen to London radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. London is the centre of British radio — the big national commercial networks are based here, and it has a thriving scene of independent and online stations that are known around the world.

The big stations

• Capital FM London — the city's hit music station.
• Heart London — pop and feel-good hits.
• LBC — news and talk, with a London stream.
• Classic FM — classical music, broadcast nationally from London.
• Smooth Radio London — easy listening.
• Radio X London and Radio X 90s — rock and indie.
• Gold — classic hits.
• Virgin Radio UK — pop and rock.

Independent and online London

• NTS Radio — founded in 2011 by Femi Adeyemi in a small studio in Dalston, now one of the most influential online stations in the world, with two live channels and themed streams such as Slow Focus.
• Resonance FM 104.4 — London's arts radio station, with experimental and unusual programming.
• Jazz London Radio — jazz at 256kbps.
• London Soul Radio — soul and funk.
• Techno.FM — techno.

About the BBC

BBC London and the BBC's national networks are mostly restricted to the UK, and BBC Sounds has been UK-only since July 2025. UK radio from abroad explains what plays outside Britain.

The sound of the city

London has been at the heart of British music for decades — punk, reggae and sound-system culture, jungle and drum and bass, grime — and pirate radio was where much of it first reached the air. Out west, Bristol radio online covers the city of trip hop, and to the south-east Kent radio online covers the county, with Essex radio online and Brighton radio online along the coasts either side. Pirate radio history and drum and bass radio go deeper.

A little history

The BBC's 2LO began broadcasting from London in 1922. The city's first commercial stations, LBC and Capital Radio, followed in 1973, and in the 1980s and 90s pirate stations on tower blocks broke the music that legal radio would not play.

Listening from elsewhere

London keeps UK time — GMT in winter and an hour ahead in summer.

A route in

1. Capital FM London, for the city's hits.
2. LBC, for news and argument.
3. NTS Radio, for London's most influential online station.
4. Classic FM, for classical music.

For the rest of Britain, UK radio online goes further.