BBC ups online programming with internet radio player

LONDON - Almost every radio programme broadcast by the BBC will now be available for people to listen to on-demand for seven days, after the corporation released a new internet radio player.

The improves the current services by adding 80 more programmes, including: Colin & Edith, Jo Whiley and Vernon Kay from Radio 1; Steve Wright, Sarah Kennedy and Ken Bruce from Radio 2; 'Morning on 3' and 'Performance on 3' from Radio 3; Ace & Invisible and Rampage from 1Xtra; 'Night Train' from BBC 6Music; 'Midday News' from Five Live; and 'Drive with Nikki Bedi' and 'Breakfast with Gagan Grewal' from the BBC Asian Network.

It also features live streaming of every one of the BBC's English local radio and national stations: Radio Scotland and Radio na nGaidheal; Radio Wales and Radio Cymru; Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle; and all 40 of the BBC's local radio stations.

The BBC said that its latest figures show more than 10m hours of BBC radio is consumed online each month. In November last year, 6.15m unique users visited one of the BBC radio websites, a 55% increase year on year.

The Radio 4 programme 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' was hugely popular, with 1m on-demand listeners.

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