A new iPhone app, BBC Listener, has been released by BBC Worldwide today, making some of the broadcaster’s best radio content available to Australian audiences.
The world famous Desert Island Discs, Sir David Attenborough’s Life Stories, and Americana are some of the programs being made available for a monthly subscription fee of $3.99.
BBC Radio is world-renowned for quality, award-winning documentaries and discussion programmes about topics as varied as science, arts, culture, history and politics. BBC Listener offers audio content hand-picked for the world’s curious minds.
Each week subscribers get over 20 new documentary, magazine and discussion programmes, plus access to a huge archive featuring some of the best audio documentaries from the last 10 years. All programmes can be listened to on-demand, on a network connection via 3G or Wi-Fi or downloaded and listened to offline.
Weekly strands include In Our Time with Lord Melvyn Bragg who discusses the history of ideas with a panel of esteemed guests. Desert Island Discs, the longest running radio program in the world in which anchor Kirsty Young invites famous guests to select the eight tracks they can’t do without. Sir David Attenborough, the world’s most famous nature presenter, discusses his favourite plants and animals in Life Stories. Crossing Continents, the documentary strand looking at global affairs, and Americana with BBC World News America’s Matt Frei, who takes a closer look at the issues affecting the U.S.
BBC Listener extends BBC Worldwide’s multi-platform approach to content distribution and its commitment to mobile. BBC.com’s free News App for iPhone and iPad provides the BBC’s award winning news in multiple languages from journalists all around the world and has been downloaded more than one million times. In addition, apps are also available in the iTunes app store for BBC Worldwide brands Top Gear and BBC Good Food.
The BBC Listener app will be available on a 30 day free trial from the App Store, and a monthly fee of $3.99 thereafter. The content is drawn from the speech network BBC Radio 4 and the internationally renowned BBC World Service.
