Please recommend a good non-BBC news radio station? 22 May 2021 at 1:40AM in Phones & TV 17 replies 492 views

wasty

I have stopped paying my TV licence and would like to know anyone’s recommendations for a good news radio station?  I am currently interested in the Diana-BBC debacle and so I don’t want to listen to the BBC.

EssexExile

Times Radio. I haven't tried it so more a suggestion than a recommendation.

JJ_Egan

Russia Today ??

pbartlett

one of these maybe?

List of Internet radio stations - Wikipedia

Also (and I know it is the BBC), you may get on with the World Service

pphillips

Talk Radio 

Chino

JJ_Egan said:

Russia Today ??

Seriously?

Zinger549

LBC is good.

FluffityBunny

LBC, it's all I listen to now

wasty

Chino said:

JJ_Egan said:

Russia Today ??

Seriously?

Funnily enough, on occasions when I got fed up with the same old clap trap on bbc1 and Sky, I used to switch to RT and sometimes it was quite interesting because it had more international reports, although I did find it annoying when they put the text of what they were saying on the screen as well, it seems a bit childish.

wasty

EssexExile said:

Times Radio. I haven't tried it so more a suggestion than a recommendation.

Listened lunchtime and it was good, thanks.

I didn’t think much of Talk Radio except that they also play music, but perhaps I need to look at their schedule.

My main problem is that my iPad gets hot when listening to internet radio, so I am reluctant to listen for more than an hour!

poppasmurf_bewdley

Times Radio, Talk Radio and LBC are all good, and seem far less biased than the BBC, but one or two presenters may get your hackles up, depending on whether you favour the left or right wing.  

Overall, I find a mixture of the three to be far more refreshing than the stale format that has become the BBC.