Live streams online

BBC World Service is webcast free 24 hours a day via the 'Listen Live' link on our click home page.

Many individual programmes can be heard as click podcasts or on demand during the week of their broadcast. Links to programmes can be found on our click programmes page.

Audio files are not generally available for more than seven days after their first broadcast (weekly programmes) or the day of broadcast (daily programmes).

However, audio for many documentary series and special programmes is archived in our click documentaries index.