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BBC World Service
Published by:
Zeno Media
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).
- Read the latest news headlines from the BBC World Service website
- Listen to your favorite radio programmes free with the audio player, or by using the standard-rate telephone dial-up service.
- You can listen to the most recent editions of:
- The Global News Podcast
- Newshour
- HARDtalk
- Sport Today
- Business Daily
- Focus on Africa, and many more
For EU users only: If you choose to receive customized ads, a unique identifier (Google Advertising ID or Apple’s 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. Such information will only be processed in line with Zeno Media’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.zenomedia.com/wp-content/themes/zeno/privacy_policy.pdf
Find out about your privacy rights and the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.
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.
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- Read the latest news headlines from the BBC World Service website
- Listen to your favorite radio programmes free with the audio player, or by using the standard-rate telephone dial-up service.
- You can listen to the most recent editions of:
- The Global News Podcast
- Newshour
- HARDtalk
- Sport Today
- Business Daily
- Focus on Africa, and many more
For EU users only: If you choose to receive customized ads, a unique identifier (Google Advertising ID or Apple’s 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. Such information will only be processed in line with Zeno Media’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.zenomedia.com/wp-content/themes/zeno/privacy_policy.pdf
Find out about your privacy rights and the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.
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.
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BBC World Service FAQ
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Is BBC World Service free?
Yes, BBC World Service is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
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BBC World Service is free.
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User Rating
4.48 out of 5
1,870 ratings in Netherlands
5 star
1,264
4 star
413
3 star
94
2 star
30
1 star
69
Ratings History
BBC World Service Reviews
Not compliant with EU cookie laws
It will install an infinite number of trackers. Disabling some is possible but you’ll have to scroll through pages of forms and disable trackers for each involved party.
Disappointing
Takes forever to load. And then it just might work, or not
News
certain news reader speaks the beginning of a sentence loud and clear, but it becomes increasingly weaker and becomes unintelligible.
Paying back the old app
Bring back the old app, I can’t read my news, the old app was much much better, bring back the old app, please. Thank you.
OMG so bad it’s laughable
Messy and hard to navigate. Somewhere along the line the BBC lost its identity by trying to be more than a source of accurate news. Not sure who is running the outfit but I know who is running from it.
Great app
A good friend!
Crashing
Crashes after opening and playing first few seconds of news. If Bbc News app is open in the background then when opening Bbc World Service it will stop playing if the the screen is turned off. iOS 12.5.7 iPhone 6
Quality
Very good
Great app
Right away all the very latest news
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Keywords
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App Info
- Category
- News
- Publisher
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Zeno Media
- Languages
- English
- Recent release
- 4.10.20 (10 months ago )
- Released on
- Feb 13, 2019 (6 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, India, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR China, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Vietnam, Singapore, Belgium, Türkiye, South Africa, Thailand, Nigeria, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Kenya, Ghana, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Brazil, Malaysia, Uganda, Russia, Mexico, Austria, Colombia, Czechia, Nepal, Finland, Philippines, Egypt, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Israel, Greece, Kuwait, Senegal, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Chile, Oman, Argentina, Indonesia, Malta, Ukraine, Qatar, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Romania, Bahrain, Peru, Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Lithuania, Macao SAR China, Latvia, Mauritius, Lebanon, Bulgaria, Angola, Mali, Uruguay, Ecuador, Panama, Croatia, Namibia, Algeria, Estonia, Armenia, Belarus, Dominican Republic, Tunisia, Bermuda, Paraguay, Slovenia, Grenada, Madagascar, North Macedonia, Brunei, Belize, Cayman Islands, Suriname
- Last Updated
- 6 days ago
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