British radio online, live in your browser: the BBC World Service, Classic FM, LBC, the Heart, Capital and Smooth networks, Radio Caroline and hundreds of local and community stations. The stations below come from the open Radio Browser directory, ordered by listener votes. One thing to know if you are abroad: the BBC's domestic networks — Radio 1, 2, 4, 6 Music and the rest — are mostly restricted to the UK, while the World Service and the big commercial stations stream internationally. Everything here plays 15 minutes a day free, with no account and no download.
Open 72FM's UK page, choose a station and press play — 15 minutes a day free, with no account and no download. Classic FM, LBC, Heart, Capital, Smooth, Radio Caroline and the BBC World Service are in the directory.
The BBC World Service is made for listeners abroad. Most of the BBC's domestic networks are restricted to the UK, and BBC Sounds has been UK-only since July 2025. The UK radio abroad guide lists what works.
Among the most-voted UK stations in the directory are BBC World Service, Classic FM, LBC, Radio Caroline, Capital London, Heart and Smooth.
Yes — 15 minutes a day free, with no account and no download. Premium removes the daily limit.
You can listen to UK radio stations online in any browser — no app, no download, no account needed to start. Open 72FM's United Kingdom page, choose a station, and press play. The BBC's national networks are the obvious first stop, and they're excellent. But British radio's real depth lies past them: regional stations with proper local character, specialist music programming that shaped entire genres, and community broadcasters that sound like nowhere else. This guide covers both — the big names, briefly, and then everything worth finding beyond them.
Read the full guide: Listen to UK Radio Online: Beyond the Big Names