You don’t need to write an essay, but it’d be really interesting to hear how you listen (ie. BBC FM relay, BBC shortwave, online, public radio rebroadcasts and so on) and where you do it. The reason I ask is I’ve had a couple of surprises recently from NZ and the US.
I got an email from Hali in California yesterday asking to sign up to the Daily Email. As I often do, I replied asking how she listened to the show. KSPB was her answer, which raised my eyebrows as I had no idea we were carried in Pebble beach, California. This follows another one of you telling me you tune to KXOT in Seattle. We didn’t know about that either. And there have been others.
Beach FM in New Zealand has started carrying the show again recently which we’re delighted about.
So if you’ve two minutes, please tell us how you’re tuning in. It makes fascinating and exciting reading for us, and maybe even for you.
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I listen on satellite radio in either Washington, DC or Arlington, VA.
BBC 88.9 FM in Singapore. 24/7 BBC World Service.
BBC World Service – Online
From, of course, Richmond, Va.
I’m not sure the BBC is on any radio stations around here. Occasionally I have heard the BBC while traveling, but I think it was just select programs on select stations.
I have three ways of listening to the show: BBC website, Hotbird Sat and the podcast. Here are the details!
I listen to the show most of the time on the BBC website.
When I am in a place where I can’t have internet connection, I listen to it via Hotbird Sat.
When I can’t listen to the show live, because of being outside or at work, I listen to it via the podacst. I am one of those who podcast some shows. For March, I “helped ” the show reach 66,665 downloads and rank 28thon the list of monthly downloads!!!
The average number of live shows I listen to is at least three a week.
The days I wasn’t able to listen to the show live were Tuesday and Thursday because I worked in the afternoon on these days. For the coming days, there may be a new schedule for my listening habit. What matters, at least for me, is that I am a loyal listener.
I listen on Sirius Satellite Radio & Internet in my office.
Hi Precious Ros….. I listen to the BBC World Service on the FM wave 96.9 MH… With my love… Yours forever, Lubna in Baghdad, Iraq…
I listen online at OPB.org while at work in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Local time for WHYS is 10:00 am.
I listen on 1020 AM Radio in Salt Lake City, Utah
Choice of two ways:
Mainly via the radio channels available via the Austar system (on Optus) here in Australia, but also via the internet/my computer.
Bob
I’m listening in a hot air balloon, where I have been held prisoner for 24 years.
My radio is home made from an old razor blade, a pencil lead and some wire. With a pair of WW2 headphones.
Hello Ros: Here in Portland, OR as a program on OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting)/NPR. Virginia
90.3 FM NPR Ideastream – Cleveland, OH
Ros,
I listen at work, it’s currently 10am here in Mississippi in the US. The show is on XM Satellite Radio on BBC World Service, Channel 131.
Thanks,
Lindsay Nelson
I listen to WHYS on the internet from the BBC World Service website in the morning while I am at work.
Keep up the good work!
I am in southern Spain and tune in on the net. Darned good quality the stream is too.
I listen on the internet at 10:00am everyday from my work, which is at a hospital. Everyone knows I always listen so they dont bug be from 10 to 11 and ask, “was your show good today?”.
Also, I think WHYS should last a half an hour more!!!
-Anthony, LA, CA
Sirius Radio in the States
I listen on Oregon Public Broadcasting. It begins at 10pm Monday through Friday and midnight on weekends. So I hear it as I drift off to sleep, and then on and off through the night.
On satellite radio, in our dining room.
Hi Everybody,
I listen through my TV Aerial using Freeview, a Digital Service put out by The BBC. I have a digital decoder that contains a hard drive to record programmes if I’m out. It is connected directly to my stereo system so I do not need to run the TV for Radio Channels. I do have to change my aerial to a broadband version for better reception.
Hi Ros, im in Kitgum district, northern Uganda. I get bbc through shortwave. Sometimes its really noisy and wavy , interferences occurs most of the time. Thanks. Its always nice when you are on air. James
I listen on the Internet from the BBC World Service. But I can get it on the satellite TV
too.
(Actually, I just got the means to listen in real time on the Mac.. no problem on the PC laptop. The link took a lot of figuring out, on the Mac)
It is easier online because I am in my own little space with my own little computer.
Is it true in the UK that if you don’t pay some radio fee, they fine you, and send trucks through the streets to see who is listening to the radio, and if you haven’t paid the fee, they come knocking on your door?
HI All,
Been listening for a couple of years here on WCPN public radio in Cleveland, Ohio. I am usually eating lunch while listening at work and when there are interuptions here on the radio, I will turn into the BBC on the web. A really great show……….Peace
Hi Ros
I listen to BBC on 93.9 FM on either my cell phone (while I’m gardening or doing housework) or my car radio!
Savane
Nairobi
I wake up to the BBC news on NPR instead of an alarm or music. I have just learned recently that I can also listen while the computer is on. judy
Hi Again Steve,
We have to have a license to watch TV. £130 per annum. This includes The Radio. (I call it wireless) They can check who is watching what with vans. I’ve chosen to pay by direct debit for many years now. Means I do not have to worry and I’m on the “goody goody” list.
Here in Berlin one radio is constantly tuned in World Service FM, and one of the wireless networked EEEPC’s (mini laptops) usually has the World Service internet broadcast running. Which is amazing quality.
And the FM is good here, when traveling around I listen to it on a tiny MP4 player that has a radio, works on the subway even.
And I agree with Anthony; the program is too short!
Funny thing happened though on the Mondays South Africa program.
I was invited to join in, I gave my phone numbers and also my Skype address. So there I am listening to the show on the radio, when my skype rings, it’s an engineer from the show, to do a sound check.
So I take the laptop to another room and do the Testing One Two Three bit, I could hear the show n skype, very good quality, and was told that I was load and clear, and when introduced, I would be “on line” as in a conversation. So I am listening away, waiting to be introduced etc. then the phone rings, it’s WHYS asking if I would like to join the show that evening, and I explained that I was already on hold – on Skype.
The woman surprised that someone had already been in contact and asked what I would be talking about, So I turned down the volume on the skype and launched in my short version. I am now about 3 metres away from the computer talking into the phone.
After a minute she “OK” and that was the end of the call.
Back to Skype, but it had been disconnected! So I go back to the room where the radio is and the program is still running. My wife tells me
“That was awful that Skype thing, I could hardly hear you and then they cut you off!
“But I didn’t say anything!” I reply. “The Skype connection just went off!”
But I was assured my muffled incoherent tones were heard for a few seconds.
So, a very mixed media evening with the Beeb!
Malc
I listen to you guys through the internet, while at work. I share an office so most days my co-workers are forced to listen. They can’t help but get involved. However there are some days when we get so heated internally that the boss comes by and turns you guys off.
Chris
I listen daily M-F 12PM – 1PM Central Time on KUT2, an online and HD radio parallel but separate version of KUT Austin, Texas, 90.5FM
Chers, “ya’ll” !
I listen to BBC on line.
OPB-550 from Corvallis 10AM pacific time. I’m in my office, trying to stay off the phone so I can listen!
on line and xm radio
Well OPB here in Oregon of course, I listen on my Walkman at work at 10am like my fellow US West Coasters. Soon I hope to get a new mobile phone so I can stream on it and catch the whole 2 hours. Tracy my lovely wife streams at work when she can.
Hi, there! 😛
I listen to you through the link ‘Listen live’ in this website.
However, when I’m not at home to listen to the show, I download the podcast in the ‘Podcasts Directory’ from BBC.co.uk. I have a huge collection, and I love listening to if many times!
Cheers! 🙂
Hugs from Colombia!
Pod cast or if somewhere there is high-speed, online.
Here’s my listening choices in order of quality based on immediacy of the stream:
1. KALW 91.7fm SF
2. BBC online
3. XM – 131 BBC
BTW: I live over 100 miles from SF, CA on the Pacific coast of Northern California and the only way I can get KALW clearly over the air is with the NPR interference blocking antenna that is 10 times better than any other fm antenna I’ve ever seen. It drives me nuts dealing with satellite delay and/or buffering 22khz streams online and KALW is the only way to get the show in real time.
Listening on KVPR/KPRX HD2 channel from Fresno, California.
@ Peter:
They can check who is watching what with vans.
Whoa….. creepy lol
I listen to the BBC online, through links on the website, everyday. WHYS starts at 14:00 local time, when I’m at work, so normally I can’t listen to it live – except when it’s not too busy over here. That is quite sad, but fortunately I can download podcasts when I get home 🙂
Hi WHYSers!
I listen in the car on 104 FM, a dial completely dedicated to the BBC in Jamaica. I am not sure if that is a relay FM station, or what but it is the most convenient place to listen to WHYS as well as all the other programmes on the BBC. One of my favourites is Outlook. BIG Ups to Mathew, Rita (I hope that is her name!), Heather and all the others before!
I listen to BBC online in my office. U.S. mass media is so terrible that i get my world news from the BBC — and encourage my students to do the same…
I listen to BBC World Service, on the internet, on 7.160 MHz. at night, 17.830 MHz. and 15.400 MHz. mainly. I use to be able to pick BBC World Service Short Wave Broadcast up on a lot of frequencies but not any more since BBC stopped transmitting on them and I only speak English. I use a 160 meter full wave loop fed by 120 feet of 9913 flex coax and a grounded 2:1 balun transformer with two line isolators one after the antenna tuner and one at the end of the antenna’s coax connection to the main antenna selection switch box. There are other antennas I use but my favorite is the 160 meter loop. (Big Ears and A Big Mouth.)
My internet connection is DSL and from the same company I have telephone service with. The problem is that I have no other possibility of a internet connection but from my service. I live next door to Fort Benning, Georgia in a non-commercial fly zone in direct line of site of Larson Airfield, 550 feet above and 7 air miles away upon a Sandstone Ridge in Alabama. My telephone has twice been compromised and hooked up to my evil neighbors once for 4 days when I was in court a year ago against them and now last week for two days. I don’t doubt it is still tapped into, so the internet broadcast are not reliable. I did only have dial-up but it got to where it could not connect.. When I talked on my phone, I and the party I was talking to would hear a click clock sounding noise like someone was trying to hang me up as if my phone was theirs.
For my BBC learning and entertainment experience,
the intrepid internet has become the “wireless”
while currently on the lam
in a humble hut hidden away somewhere in
Huntington Woods, Michigan.
Thank You Ros and Friends for sharing your
inquisitive intellectualism….!!
Hi, everyone!
😉 What’s up!
I listen to the programme on-line, and I love my collection of podcasts!!! 😀
Aloha! Take care!
Aloha From Hawaii,
I listen to BBC on Hawaii Public Radio KHPR
A Hui Hou
I listen to the BBC from Canada’s CBC Radio 1….
Watch the BBC from BBC America and on WPBS (Public television in) Watertown,
New York…..
Also, i read the bbcnews.com website.
Dennis
Madrid, United States of America
Where am I, 30.4273 N ,76.6492 E
village Chattarnagar ,Punjab ,India.
I listen to the show on shortwave 5.975MHz or
6.195MHz ,although I have a Worldspace receiver.
In the morning I listen on 15.31MHz.
@steve
You do not need a radio licence in the UK.
The BBC Worldservice is funded separately from the rest of the BBC.
Hi Ros.
i listen to the BBC on satalite radio at home, and 648 in the car.
Have a nice day.
John in Germany.
When I’m not in the office (where listening can be hard if I’m answering the phones or reading your messages) I listen on digital radio. Unless I’m too lazy to walk across the room from the computer, in which case I might stream for a while ; )
And when I’ve missed a programme I’ll listen to the podcast on the tube.
I listen to the podcast which automatically downloads to my PC since I am subscribed. As i can’t listen to every program every day, i tend to follow the blog and choose which program i want to listen to on the basis of what questions are being asked.
Since i don’t have a digital radio or digital tv i can only listen to the live program through the BBC website. But this can be difficult to navigate and sometimes the stream stops working 😀
BBC Media Player.
Thank You Ros.
This is Zach Mokaya from Plainfield Indiana. Am originally from Kenya.
Well, BBC is my life line. I listen on line, as at 1:pm, eastern time, am at work. At home and in my car, via a satellite radio as there are no FM stations in USA as in other Countries, i.e Kenya.
Well, it’s about time again for the program.
Cheers!
Zach Mokaya.
I listen every day online at work through 90.3 WCPN’s website, and next week I’ll get to listen to it over the air on 90.3! I also catch up on your podcast if I’m away from my desk.
I listen to WHYS on OPB at 91.5 FM, 550 AM and on the web, usually from Lebanon, Oregon.
I listen to 90.3 FM in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Depending on where I am.
When at home, I listen on my stereo on FM 101.3 which is a BBC station in Kampala.
When on the road, I use the radio on my cell phone on the same station.
When at the office, I only use the net to browse the site since my connection is quite poor.
THough the first time I listened was on Short wave on my Grandpa’s radio ages ago ………..late 1980’s
Well, lovely.In Kampala, I listen to the BBC Worldservice from the BBC FM station(101.3FM). Ma radio is by default at this frequency all the time.
Upcountry,(Hoima,Western,Uganda) I scrabble for the SW which is usually never clear but itry as much as I can to search fro the waves.
You guys are inicredible in all that you do!!
Till then,
I listen on KALW in San Francisco, CA. from 10 in the morning until 11. I can’t always catch the whole show, because at that hour I’m in the heart of my day, and as a realtor, I’m in and out of the car for some of the hour. I started listening to the first broadcast by KALW (91.7 FM) and immediately signed up for daily e-mail updates. If the update points to a particularly compelling story, I’ll try to be in the car for the broadcast.
I listen via Podcasts in Germany…too bad you do not have any FM-frequencies outside of Berlin. Though I enjoy hearing it on demand, that certain “live-feeling” on your radio-integrated mobile while walkind through the streets is what makes WHYS so charming.
Cheers to you all!!
I tune in everyday by going to the BBC website, and clicking on. I have been for a few years now. I do it while at work, which is why i never get to participate, but I listen everyday, then I listen to the news for the rest of the afternoon. I love getting sports news from the rest of the planet, makes the US’s NFL and NBA, seem silly.
I listen on the internet site when I’m home. If I’m on the road (which happened yesterday), I listen on Sirius Satellite radio. If I miss one and it’s one I want to hear, I just click on your “listen again” option and choose the day I missed.
Abdi’s comments
I listen to WHYS every Mon-Friday through my Radio.
My life without WHYS will be like Tea without Sugar.
I switch on My radio at 9pm Local time and listen to it till 10pm local time.
Whenever Ros is not hosting the programme I simply Switch off my radio and Sleep.Because is a simply “genius and has a God given journalistic talents’-Long life Ros..To me you’r simply the world’s greatest!
Abdi’s comments
I listen to WHYS every Mon-Friday through my Radio.
My life without WHYS will be like Tea without Sugar.
I switch on My radio at 9pm Local time and listen to it till 10pm local time.
Whenever Ros is not hosting the programme I simply Switch off my radio and Sleep.Because Ros is simply “genius and has a God given journalistic talents’-Long life Ros..To me you’r simply the world’s greatest!
Hello!
I listen to WHYS using the Internet, I mean BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ . I’m a listener from Poland and if I have time, I listen to the programme. It is 7p.m in here when you are on-air, so, as for me, listening to WHYS is a nice thing to end the day with latest news and interesting discussions.
Lots of greetings and congratulations on a great show.
I listen to WHYS on KALW, in San Francisco, California, USA.. It is a public radio station, which is significant if you are familiar with commercial radio stations in the United States.
I tend to eschew call-in shows, but I have found that your show has a way of keeping debates thoughtful and intelligent.
The global approach of your show is also quite fascinating. In some cases, your callers provide some insight of the worldview of their countries. But more often, I learn how my worldview is similar to people from around the world itself.
In Sri Lanka, SLBC (Sri Lanaka Broadcasting Corporation) airs some BBC programmes through ‘SLBC English Commercial Service’.
I do get the podcast if I missed the programme.
What’s up Ros and all,
I listen online from NYC 1-2 PM EST, Houston 2-3 PM CST and Mexico 2-3 CST PM. Excellent streaming! I only miss the show when I don’t have online access. Incidentally, it’d be nice to have a list of radio stations or alternative listening options when online access is not available.
I did not realize I could podcast. Fabulous!
hi Ross;
still listen to you and all yuor excellent presenters every day from about 0100 GMT to approx 1500GMT while out on the road with my “local” trucking business here in southern califonria. based in laguna beach, calif 92651 about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from LA.
did send you photos of my trucks hope you received them, red Volvo and white Freightliner with two trailers equaling 73 feet in length. hauling mostly building materials, to from large work sites.
you continue tyo give me the truth without the Americanized “spin” all the other news networks place on the news.
i only watch the BBC news on Direct TV for USA each evening to get the straight stories not what gets handily deleted.
thank yoy for your outstandfing work and i will keep listening.
it was as pity to see the presenter og Outlook be replaced. an error in my humble opinion.
I am Randall L. Miller, U.S Air Force/ret. 1968-1992, 3 years vietnam and tour in kuwait with 6 fused spine vertabrae do to “a round ” landing near the loading ramp ofg oir aircraft back in 1991,
funny how CNN wa right there, we know it was filmed, but never ever appeared on american networks aywhere at any time.
the artillary fire was during Desert Shield, before the actual “shooting” started for Desert Storm hence never made it to the public. however it was briefly on the BBC. s very good friends, of mine, living in Ipswich,a nd just outside RAF Alconbury, where the U-s /TR-1 were flying from in 1980’s.
we had the “press believeing there were 3 aircraft on station as they were on the fence .”plane watching” taking photos as we knew that we simply do to security and intelligence gathering kept the airplanes inside, we actually had only one airplane there , Yet the SUN and MIrror and well,as the Daily Mail reported us the 17RW as having 3 aircraft.
not too tough to repaint tail numbers when there are no other markings on your aircraft.
keep up the outstanding shows from all over the world.
please feel free to come to Laguna Beach during the “PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS” a living art showmo9f old painting done with great lightig. people come from world wide to see it and irt seels out the year before each year.
all space sin paintings are filling with Volunteers in expert makeup. the cannot move for 90 secondes of course
well done one and all
randall miller
I listen on 91.5 FM (OPB) in Portland, OR on the days I am working in the office. When I’m working from home I listen over the internet.
I have withdrawals on the days I have meeting conflicts for work!
I am online listening in California, have been reading your news, watching your web cams and the likes for several years now. Use to watch your broadcast via the Telly until I got rid of that ( heh)
Very simply, The BBC reports world news and events in a precise and factual way and if for instance there may be some doubt, the BBC clearly states that the report was unconfirmed, so someone can know it may not be a fact. Some years ago, I have experienced listening to another radio station in California, stateting words to the effect that the Russians were pulling out of Hungary, when in fact they were advancing further, I lost money in commodities because of the mistaken report. Since then I know not to trust reports from any other broadcasting station.
Besides what other organisation has reporters all over the world, none.
Keep it up BBC I hope you stay in business for ever.
Currently in Sydney, I listen to the BBC via commercial FM radio Radio 2000’s relay after 11 pm. Sometimes, I listen to it onlne.
But after I go back to China, I’ll still listen to the World Service via internet.
Want to see more downloadable podcast online.
Cheers,
I pick up WHYS through my radio on shortwaves. I wonder how my town-mate Abdi receives right it in the first thirty minutes. I’ve got difficulties in grasping probably due to the BBC Somali Service domination of the airwaves at such time. Just after that I can get it right. Perhaps Abdi could give me a clue. It is enchanting listening WHYS!
Ascension shortwave on east coast USA. a few hours at night things are available on FM
Hi all,
I listen every morning and evening in the kitchen, using the radio – BBC World Service, whatever AM that actually is. It’s what keeps me running and connected to the rest of the world.
world service FM and online.
I tune in to BBC on FM radio 24/7 (almost everyday), have been doing it since a kid, a strong paternal influence.
I listen via the internet and at times a portable world receiver radio from Sanniquellie, a remote town in Liberia.
I’ve grown up listening to the BBC – World Service, Radio 4, and Radio 5 mainly. I usually listen on a portable radio, very handy for when I’m in the gym. I listen from the city I was born in, London.
BBC 89.2 FM Antananarivo/Madagascar
Listen via XM Radio..
Disney World, FL
National Public Radio (NPR/WNYC) 93.9FM from New York, USA
On-line radio through National Public Radio (NPR) local affiliate KOPB in Portland OR.
Keep up the good work. Love the show!
on DAB in Hackney, east London. Great reception.
OPB in Bend, Oregon; however when I have travelled interantionally, I have heard the program via the BBC in Asia & India.
on digital radio and online
am in norwich, uk and listen to world service all the time because it makes me feel part of an extended international family. brilliant!
In Berlin/Germany, either on FM (usually in the car driving around the city or in the kitchen) or online. However, I must confess I listen to other BBC stations online more often (4, 7). The World Service is also the station my radio alarm clock is tuned to.
And I know for a fact that I’m not alone in being absolutely willing to pay license fees to the BBC in exchange for access to the BBC’s broadband content! Including the signing of a “no right to influence programming in any way” waiver, if necessary. 😉
88.1 FM when am near the kenya border, 107.3 if am in a place far from Kampala, 101.3 when Am in kampala Uganda, Online when at my upcountry office.
Since moving to Cyprus, BBC WorldService has been a constant companion – I listen especially in the car on 1323 MW where this channel is the only one picked up clearly wherever we drive on the island.
Local stations havent yet managed to achieve this….
Excellent reporting, fascinating stories, most interesting discussions and some heart rendering moments…BRAVO and thank you. An inspiration to us journalists here…
Hi Ros,
My way of listening to the world’s favourite topical show is 93.9 FM in Nairobi.
I LISTEN VIA MY GOOD OLD DIGITAL SHORT WAVE RADIO
AND ONLINE SOME TIMES FROM BENIN-CITY
I AM ADDICTED TO THE BBC WORLD SERVICE
BBC ROCKS
I just found out about the station one day while browsing XM and I like it so far.
I listen online via WMP through BBC World Service.
Sure makes my lunch break interesting!!
Listen to WHYS on KOPB, 91.5 FM, Portland, Oregon, USA. Listen to radio or online two or three times a week. WHYS is fascinating and frustrating. Frustrating when participants argue over each other. Frustrating when participants stray from topic and rant. Fascinating and informative to hear viewpoints from the rest of the world. Like Stephen Hawking says in the Pink Floyd song – KEEP TALKING.
I mostly listen to the BBC World Service 107.3 in Mbarara, Uganda – its on 24 hrs. sometimes I listen online.
I am listening from Washington DC, and i am using your internet radio service. But when i was back home, in Jamaica i listened by the radio. Great job guys!!!
I listen online via the BBC media player, thank you BBC for doing a service to society..
I listen to OPB in Portland, Oregon.
I listen to BBC World Service on public radio/WAMU via the web in Herndon, Virginia.
via the internet in north central Arizona, USA
via podcast. always a better way to listen to BBC radio nowadays!
i listen to bbc via 103fm kathmandu
I listen to the World Service online from my office in Dallas, Texas.
I am listening online in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
I listen to the BBC radio online from Barcelona, Spain
I listen over the internet in Columbus, Indiana. Here is an Idea for you. The BBC should make a WiFI radio just designed to recieve all of the different BBC radio stations around the world. The beauty of it is it would work every place you could find a wireless internet connection on the planet.
Various options for me:
101.3 FM when am in Kampala, Uganda.
104.7 while far from kampala.
88.1 when am near the Kenya border.
Online if I want to hear the first version of WHYS at 1700hrs which finds me at home.
Am amazed that so many Americans listen to BBC.
I generally listen in through Cleveland, Ohio, USA public radio station FM 90.3 WCPN, specifically for WHYS. Otherwise, you’ll find me listening to WKSU FM 89.7, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA – which does not appear to broadcast WHYS, at least for now.
I generally listed via WBEZ, public radio in Chicago, where by the way it is an absolutely glorious day today! I am in Evanston, first suburb north along Lake Michigan. Occasionally I will also listen via the internet.
When I was in Hanover, Jamaica I used to listen to in on the radio, 104 FM. Now I listen via the internet in Minnesota, USA.
I listen via the internet in Waxahachie, TX (just south of Dallas). Supposedly 90.1 FM has it in our area according to BBC’s website, but I’ve found that to not be true.
i live in nigeria and you as well know, its short wave radio all the way,my precise location is lokoja in kogi state.
I listen to the BBC World Service via digital short wave radio, online or on Satellite via DSTV audio channel 150 in Nigeria. 🙂
Hi Ros,
This is Mostafa, from Iran, one of the delegates of CIVICUS Youth Assembly 2008, who also got the chance to personally attend one of your WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY live programs!
I use BBC Media Player to tune in!
Bests,
Mostafa
I listen to WHYS via daily podcast in Middleboro Massachusetts (US)
This unfortunately leaves me out of the discussion during airtime.
I listen from Berlin, Germany, oth the way from and to work on my MP§ players radio … today for the first time I downloaded two podcasts, discussions that I missed …
I listen online in New York, NY
I listen to the BBC via a CBS radio station out of Santa Monica (KCRW) that is reprodcasted via AOL Radio on my iPhone while at work here in S. Florida.
I live in Paris and listen on 648 MW.
I listen online, using the BBC Media Player, at my home in Chamby, Switzerland above Montreux, overlooking Lake Geneva
i listen on Sirius (internet or satellite receiver) from Philadelphia, PA USA
How i listen is a bit funny. Mobile phone, FM. I am having a simple mobile phone, NOKIA that i even ignore the mark, it was offered to me by a priest, lucky enough i discoverd it had the option radio. Our local radios can’t capt BBC very well but my phone, SUPERB. I capt from Lubumbashi/Katanga province, DR Congo.
i listen podcasts and sometimes radio (but it has bad quality on countryside) in Latvia
I’m listening from Lafayette, Louisiana through Itunes Streaming of KCRW in Los Angelos
I’m in Atlanta, Georgia. I listen through the BBC World Service Online.
Hello, my name is Yana and I am originally from Greece, but I am listening to the BBC via Internet from beautiful San Diego, California.
My lunch time on the car radio. Local relay thry CMU Public Radio FM 89.5.
Now listing on my PC while finishing lunch.
I am in Quito, Ecuador, a few kilometers from the middle of the workd monument. I listen through the BBC World Service Online every day while I am working. I used to listen NPR (USA) but since they reproduce some of your programs I looked for BBC and I decided to stay with you guys.
I listen on my little transistor radio on AM in Bermuda. We lost the signal when Tropical Storm Bertha came through a few weeks ago and only just got it back this morning. I had to resort to listening on the Internet, but not quite as portable.
I listen online on George Street, St. John’s Newfoundland Canada. Thank you for connecting me to the world on a human scale.
i am listening in Pomas, about 15 kms south of Carcassonne in the southwest of France.
Since you do not broadcast am or fm anywhere near here i am listening online.
It is possible during hours of darkness (sometimes) to listen to your 647 khz transmission but itnot intended for this area (which has quite a large and growing scattering of Brits).
I listen at home & in the car on 100.1 FM in Kuwait. But can’t find you when I go to Saudi by car.
I listen on Maui in Hawaii through an iTunes internet radio feed from KCRW/Santa Monica California. You are the best!
Listeners to Europe Today are also encouraged to email World have your Say about where they are listening from, so wanted to make these points:
1. Why on the Europe Today programme do you emphasize that people EMAIL how they are listening?
Obviously you’ll get more from ONLINE listeners that way !! (Once or twice the past days you also mentioned Texting, but the emphasis is on emailing)
2. Regarding posting information on this blog the same applies:
You are obviously going to get more who say they are online listeners, than would otherwise be the case!
// Reason for mentioning this: //
I hope this is NOT part of a regular BBC survey,
as the BBC seems only too happy to shut down short wave and other radio services, eg to Europe/USA citing “everyone’s online anyway”, forgetting the quick easy convenience of ordinary radio, as well as many elderly etc listeners.
Regarding posting information on this blog:
You are obviously going to get more who say they are ONLINE listeners, than would otherwise be the case eg by surveys via telephone or such!
Reason for mentioning this:
I hope this is NOT part of a regular BBC survey,
as the BBC seems only too happy to shut down short wave and other radio services, eg to Europe/USA citing “everyone’s online anyway”, forgetting the quick easy convenience of ordinary radio, as well as many elderly etc listeners.
I listen from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on the web. Good to actually hear world news. America world news seems to focus on America and Iraq.
In Tbilisi, Georgia I use shortwave radio receiver not very often.
It is very handy when going out to the villages and remote parts where other options of reception are not available.
My preferred way of listening BBC is either Satellite or Online Streaming.
They are easier to receive, they have less (or almost no interferences) and quality is better.
That’s how we are listening to your great shows and news!
Koba Tirkia
Tbilisi, Georgia
Most days we get the noon news with BBC from WCMU radio, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, but often I listen on the Sirius radio in my shop, and sometimes we watch the BBC news on Dish Network. When traveling I have a very small short wave set that I take along.
I listen to BBC (medium wave 648 KHz) every day in my car from my home to my work place and return : 80 km on motor way in south of Paris. I appreciate the quality of the programs. “Europe today” is excellent and very objective. Amazing from the country of the Euroseptics !
However, the quality of the braodcasting is not always good, especially when the weather is bad.
I listen to WHYS while delivering truck parts in norhern Oregon. I tune into OPB to pick up the broadcast. I am fortunate to be able to do so. Thanks.
Quincy B.
Portland, USA
I listen to WHYS while driving my car from home to work (Breda to Nijmegen, The Netherlands), 100 km in the morning and 100km in the evening . I also listen online from home. Your program makes this distance very short and make me feel world-citizen
Chiara
i listen to WHYS around midnight on weekends when i take a break from school work. listening keeps me updated with world issues which are quite important for my general paper for A levels and my current affairs papers. do so on my apple! : )
Hey Ros
I sometimes listen at 3am AES Time, (NSW Australia) through our local station which downloads BBC or Deutcher Welle after hours. (I do volunteer work at the station). WHYS is a great format. Keep up the good work. By the way when your having a beer with Chloe – she tends to be a bit ‘full on’ voice wise, other than that great focus and management etc. Best wishes JS.
i listen to the bbc through the internet.
I listen radio while driving and keep myself updated with the latest BBC news.I live in Kuwait and Im a Pakistani citizen, i was born in kuwait.Listening to the bbc have gained my knowledge and also confidence when having converstaion in a social network.I learn new vocabulary every day and that makes my English language stronger.
Thanks BBC for providing news through fm radio.
I listen daily onver BBC focus on Africa at 6:30 AM and 6:00PM from 88.2 FM frequency in Juba-Sudan.
I listen to the BBC on WCPN 90.3 Cleveland, Ohio. Ros and the rest of the BBC gang are great…keep up the good work.
I plan my lunch break so I can be in my car to listen to WHYS on 90.3 WCPN, in Cleveland, Ohio.
BBC World Service – Online
OR BBC on the radio 104.something in Jamaica.
I listen on the BBC World Service online.
I live in Münich and can speak and understand German, but sometimes news
can be so painful or hard to believe, that I have to listen in my mother tongue to realise what is happening in the world, is happening.
Dear BBC,
Thanks alot for taking up the task of bringing news the world over. I have been listening to BBC through FM here in Dubai, but I get interupted while it switches to BBC Arabic at 1400 hours GMT, although I am qiute good in Arabic, I feel the English version of the Radio is far professional the the Arabic presentation, which has sometimes long silences, while the presenter tries to find what to say.
Recently, I found another confortable way of listening to the radio, that is online. And the best of it is that it is always in English, even after 1400 hours GMT!
I hope I could get my regards through to all staff of BBC, they are great, I love the presentation and topics they discuss, so well arranged, especially the initial voice of ‘real’ situation before interviews … and so on (e.g. the noises, cryings, etc that takes me to the core of the scene).
I am not quite sure this message reaches the editor. If only I know that it reaches, I may actively participate in this kind of feedback.
Thanks,
Rajab
Hi!
Devra here again!
I think I am officially hooked! (and i was not always a fan of the NEWS) I can’t wait to get to work in the mornings to log in to my PC and go to the WHYS website. I am here listening again on the internet becuz the radio is not always very clear (104.3 fm).
Looking forward to taking part in your discussions today. We’re all gearing up now to go to the conference room to watch our olympians compete in the relays … all wearing our national colours today in the office!!!
Best regards
Dev
I’m listening all the time from Kingston, Jamaica via Internet & FM Radio in my car..cannot do without my daily dose of BBC World Service in particular WHYS..Nicola
Hey World!
I listen on my PC during work and if I’m out running errands I listen to XM radio in the company truck! Between WHYS, stories and pieces on Radio 4 and the Achers and Radio 7’s comedy, I listen for 8 hours a day! It off sets the constant idiots talking sports on the radio in the office next to mine!
Thanks for all the great shows from around the world. I’ve learned more from the BBC than I did in school! Much more interesting!
Cheers from an Arizona BBC Addict!
I am in Nicaragua and listening through the website on bbc mundo, link “Englisht” and then live.
and I belive Obama is the right person for a mor pragamatic international policy and is right for the free comerce.
I listen from a SW radio installed in my car while I am coming from one of my many jobs….
BBC 88.9 FM in Singapore. Or Live on the Internet from Singapore
I listen in Pohang in South Korea via internet.
Without the internet connection I can not listen this program what a bad broadcasting system.
Love this show! I listen every day on WCPN 90.3FM, Cleveland Ohio
Paula, GMTA! I listen every day on the fabulous WCPN, 90.c, Cleveland, Ohio, as well! WHYS rocks!
Listen to BBc on 810 Am Radio NZ and online.
I am listening you from Turkiye. You have a great and informative radio show. I listen from the computer online. I love this show,too!!!
Bye, good day : )
Iam listening through either 88.1 fm in Kisumu city in Kenya or online from my computer. I love WHYS and entire BBC
Norwegian Broadcasting NRK’s Alltid Nyheter.
We love BBC’s trashfree world radio. Filled to the brim with juicy thoughts.
I am listening via Podcast in New Zealand 😉
On line.
I travel a lot – hotels etc – and find the BBC “listen again” series particularly good for the 30 minutes I have getting ready. With TV, one has to stop what one is doing to watch. I like the laptop more: I can carry it around and get on with things whilst the programme is on.
Also: there are no jingles, repeatedly annoying me and no advertisements! I like to select something which interests me and click straight to the content. The TV is largely a waste of time.
HI ROS. I listens from kampala when have come for my studies here in Uganda,listens from JUBA southern sudan and my orginal place where i was born called RUMBEK the regional capital of Lake state, southern sudan .
Hello. I listen to BBC radio from Tangier, Morocco. I enjoy listening to all the programs especially the different debates. Thank you for a great service!
Hello Ros:
I download the podcast into my iphone, and listen while I drive to work. Sometimes I drive to Los Angeles, some 5-10 hrs. When I am home, I listen through my computer.
I live in Stockton, Ca. Most of my listening, I will say a 99 % is through the podcast.
Great shows. Thanks and have a great one.
Im listening in Vermont, USA on VPR and have since inception . I was looking for he invitation to respond to “is greed OK?” asked at least twice in the last while. First I might say that the BBC has less imbedded opinion than NPR as well as asking more pithy questions, which retiring Americans fear to ask. As for greed, it implies an excess, as we have always had a profit motive, which went wild and uncontrolled right after WWII, as I recall. The concept is that capitalism is an approximation of competition in the ‘wild’, which it’s not, since family fortune is shared even today amongst the poorer people, while the practitioners of greed Always go for the largest slice of the pie and as much of the money as possible. It never gets back to the people who really Earned it in the first place. I can imagine systems w/o capitalism as well altruistic systems, yet I find that the transposed model from the Judeo-Christian template has been twisted out of purportion, and greed just makes it worse, for many reasons.
I love the show and i listen to it everyday begining from 7:00 pm local time through 8:00pm.
I listen on my radio, though the signals may not be clear at certain time.
Every other thing has got to wait until the programme is over.
This happens to be my favourite programme on the BBC.
I love you all and please keep up the good work you are doing.
Kudos to Ros, Kate and the rest of the WHYS crew.
Keep up the good work, i write from Delta State, Nigeria(Naija).
i listen on 90.3 cleveland, Ohio’s public radio station. i’m 24 and really don’t spend much time watching the news except for ur program and others on this radio station. i love the worldwide views expressed in the show.
hi this is rohullah from afghanistan
i really like ur programs especially dramas and interviews with diffrent american peopels that certainly helps me to improve my english i really love ur all programs and iam hearing them about 6 hours daily 2 and half hours in mornings and 3 and half hours from evening to night …that really makes my time busy and motivated . and the other point i got MP4 that iam recording some important occasions like hurricane iek, lemon brothers bankrupthcy, korean president, help of iranians to talibans, and russian attack on georgia…these are really good news i have heard there so i like them all so much thanks indeed
Hello Everyone, I am located in Dallas Texas and I am listening to your show on XM Satellite Radio. Awesome show. Thanks.
hi,iam 4frm yola,Nigeria iam listening tru.bbc radio.your program is very educacative,entaining,wooh i like the crew of d presenters.
Hi Ros I listen to you from Christchurch NZ. Your program is relayed live on two FM stations: Plains FM and on 108 FM. Both only carry the BBC overnight. I used to live in Dunedin NZ and there was no coverage. I was so excited to discover that the BBC was available in Christchurch. I listened to the BBC all the time when I lived and worked in Niger West Africa. So, to have the BBC here in NZ is just wonderful!
Hello,
I listen online at home which is Hamburg, Germany.
Sometimes I also listen on FM because BBC Worldservice
is imported in our cablenetwork here.
Best wishes, Matthias
Hello,
I listen on my radio at home Uthum Awiel Southern Sudan.And sometime in the internet
hello !!!
I am from india and now at saudi arabia . I listen BBC through internet, here at Al Jubail , Saudi Arabia. Fantabulous work by BBC team. I enjoy listening to your programs.
Keep up the good work 🙂
tc !!!
I listen on the BBC World Service online in my workplace and when i’m at home i llisten from Hotbird Satellite
I listen online from Charlottesville, Virginia. Santa left a laptop under the Christmas tree last year and I was tooling around with it a few months ago when I stumbled on Internet radio and the BBC World Service. It’s so bad I’ve started lugging my laptop to school just to get my fix between classes. It’s also nice to have on when I’m doing drone work like typing up lab reports.
I listen in Taos, New Mexico via streaming media player on my nokia n810 web tablet. I don’t listen to any other news or read local papers. BBC is the only news service I trust.
Women have a greater sense of fairness and integrity than men, especially in regard to politics. A woman voter will put the readiness and character of a candidate before the candidate’s gender. Men, however, will also look at the character and readiness of a candidate when deciding for whom to vote. But, if a man and woman are running for the same office, men will band together to defeat the woman, regardless of the male candidate’s qualifications.
I listen on NPR in Washington, USA.
Sirius satellite radio from my BMW 3-series in the Washington, DC-metropolitan area.
I listen from “crazy” Iceland: online at my workplace and on home on my FM radio(94.30MHz.) when I walk home.
Love “Europe today” and “World have your say”, I often download the podcasts when I miss the shows.
I am listening to WHYS in Portland on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
I live in the United States. The Bronx New York. I listen via Podcast.
Eureka Spring Ar. USA. The broadcast is out of Missouri Sate University in Springfield, Mo.
I listen to an AM rebroadcast by the Auckland Radio Trust, usually when I am driving to or from work.
Via the internet in Gdansk, Poland. Wish I had the FM option of Berlin. I tried to pick it up by connecting the radio to my block of flat’s TV aerial but no joy. Keep up the good work anyway. The beeb is my little bit of England whilst I am out here.
The BBC has disappeared in Sofia, Bulgaria. Please help. Generations learned their English listening to the BBC or would tune in for objective and impartial news coverage. The BBC was always there, even during WW2 and 60 years of communism. Please, please, please, BBC, do not abandon us.
Anna
I listen on 98.7 FM in Trinidad & Tobago.
I listen on xm radio
I am listening in Berlin, Germany on 90.2 FM on my way back home from work on my MP3 player’s radio.
WHYS is a great programme! Thank you!
When I am at home in Australia, via ABCNews radio. When I travel, I listen to news radio on the internet to hear you. I Love it ! ! !
I listen both on the radio KOAP Portland Ore, and on the internet. I like to listen to World have your say while I work out. It helps the time pass as well as informing me at to what the rest of the world is thinking about current events
Bangalore India . Mostly online. Now planning to buy world radio.
i am from nepal in asia and watch bbc everyday at 11pm ..the radio code 103.00mhz
i am from lagos nigeria,i listen on shortwave on 15400m
love d different opinions expressed worldwide
I listen in Valencia, Spain via ADSL streaming which on local radio and 4 has improved greatly. I can also get all of the BBC stations on Realplayer.
bbcAmerica
I’m listening in Taiwan on Internet radio.
I listen to BBC World Service on 88.9 FM in Singapore usually when I’m on the move, either on the train or the treadmill!
Hi Ros, listen in Gloucester UK, as an alternate sometimes, or after the R4 news, as a different slant on events. Via DAB. Keep up the good work on the real World, and not the Jonathan Woss dredged up rubbish…
I’m listening on my digital radio, while blogging on my computer, looking over my napping cat, out my window into the back yards of my neighbors in Erdington, West Midlands, UK.
MY SPOKANE DIARIES:
I’m listening BBC WS online from Spokane, WA in the USA. – visiting from South Africa. It is sort of quite here. It is a small time way off the mainstream hustle and bustle of big cities.
There is not much outdoor where I am. But a lot is taking place on TV. And there is an overwhelming sense among people I’ve spoken to that this is a historical and unprecedented presidential elections for the US and the rest of the world.
I am glad I am here. I can count myself among a true witness of history.
Richmond, VA baby! In beautiful Church Hill
site of Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
I grew up listening to the BBC on SW. Now I live in Northern VA, just outside of DC, and listen to BBC and WHYS on XM radio. If I’m travelling , which I do a fair amount for my job, I get my fix by listening on my laptop.
I discovered you on BBC Radio 88.7 fm
Trinidad and Tobago in my car!
While at home I listen on BBC Media Player
Yup, I’m becoming an addict, must be because I recently turned 40
I used to listen to BBC Worldservice on shortwave. Now mostly on podcasts and sometimes on the net using BBC Radio Player.
Satellite radio in my car from Redding (nowhere), California.
earlier i used to listen on sw but now i listen via worldspace.
i listen through online service and worldspace
I listen to the BBC on my shortwave radio everyday, and I especially like your Newshour programs. However, i think that the participants on WHYS should be given more leeway air their views more independently.
i listen on radio on BBC world service/ African service in Ghana on 101.3fm.
24/7 and i think in Africa , BBC has more listeners in Ghana than every where
I am located: USA, west coast, Portland, Oregon. Public Radio is available locally as OPB “Oregon Public Radio” on 91.5 FM. This show broadcasts 10 AM here, we are GMT + 8 hr.
This program is powerful because it speaks to a world audience, it illuminates shared problems, and you create a world wide conversation. As with this particular program, just having the conversation, and addressing these problems helps give voice to many who need to be heard, as they each speak for many many listeners. Congratulations. Keep up the good work.
I listen on the internet from Euclid Ohio USA
I am so glad to listen to people from all over the world live! This is so interesting!!
I do listen on the internet from Esteli, Nicaragua. I’m Swiss, but live and work in Central America since 6 years.
One year ago, I got 24-hour-internet at my home and since then, I am an absolute fan of your programmes on bbc world service.
Thanks for giving me this opportunity, without your radio I wouldn’t be “up-to-date” at all…..
Yvonne
I live deep in the Cascade Mountains,miles from civilization in my little log cabin and got a phone line after 12 years of being “incommunicado” with the world.Cell phones don’t work here (mountains too high),only one road in and out and I have to go 100Kms round trip into the nearest town just to get my mail and supplies.
But now I have hooked an old computer onto the phone line and I can get BBC World Service 24 hrs a day,and believe me,you are on all night long while I am in bed and the wild animals are scratching outside!Makes me feel safe!
Now I must get back to chopping firewood for the wood-stove and get a bucket of water from the creek (have no running water),so you see;you have no idea just where BBC World is playing!
Peter the Mountain Hermit
I listen in Portland, Oregon, USA on 91.5FM Oregon Public Broadcasting in the morning local time, while I am at work. It is unfortunate because some of the time I think I have something to contribute to the conversation; however I am truly busy at that time so all I can do is listen while handling my daily routine.
The program is fascinating; I completely enjoy hearing views and ideas from people all around the world. I have been listening since it first aired on OPB. Thank you and keep up the great work.
I listen to WHYS from Sydney Australia, love your show but only wish it was longer! Podcast
Hello Ros!
Am Kenyan currently in Uganda. I get you in BBC FM Relay both here and back at home in Kenya.
Hi 🙂
I listen to WHYS in Seoul, KOREA on internet.
I love this program.
Thank you.
I´m a dedicated listener från Sweden. I listen to WHYS on the internet. I work with a similar show at the SR, Swedish Radio. Keep up the good work!
Love your program and hearing opinions from around the world. I am especially surprised to hear so many people calling in from Africa. Your program is on time delay here, so I am not able to participate.
I listen in Tacoma, Washington, USA on KXOT-FM. This is a University of Washington NPR station.
Hi
I listen BBC on the internet from Turkey Kocaeli
thank you
I listen to the program through Public Radio International on our local public radio station WFYI 90.1 FM in Indianapolis, Indiana. I work the midnight shift so the program is live here in the states.
Am listening online at my home its 12.10 AM , in Pune,India ,thats my usual practice while I do my work at night.
I listen to the BBC on FM 96.90, Baghdad, Iraq. Since I can’t get PBS, the BBC is the next best thing (sorry BBC). ;~)
I listen on 90.1fm here in Southwest Florida. Relayed on FGCU’s local radio station
I drive an Icecreamvan (I am aware of the irony) so i catch your show and reruns.
BBC World Service FM 94.3 Reykjavík ,Iceland
From Hartford Connecticut, USA; I listen to your broadcast via the internet live stream.
Regards,
rhodes
I’m from Singapore and I’ll stay up to 2AM(+8GMT) almost every weekday to listen to WHYS with FM 88.90.
I now also subscribe to the WHYS podcast (and many other BBC Radio podcasts) in iTunes so I’ll never miss anything.
Online, discovered the show yesterday and one of my questions was asked today, I really liked it.
I listen to the BBC daily online and radio mark 648 middlewave as I travel on the motorway! Terrific programming which I can’t “live” without.
PS Oops, I live in the Netherlands!
Originally for Birmingham UK and now in Fort Myers SW Florida USA. It was great to hear the BBC news and your programme. I listen to it via FGCU public radio at midday. Great programme keep up the good work !
I listen to the programme through the BBC radio service on my laptop everyday.
regards
A cute question, I have to say. Let’s see, “Where and How”, well, after a long day of working, often with a lot of frustrating events, lots of noise and lots of nowhere, I’d finally get closer to MY “heaven”. I’d turn off the lights–if there was an electricity power in the house! I’d go upstairs to my bedroom to finally enjoy my every day’s ritual. After 1 am, the big power generator near our house would be turned off, that is when a peaceful silence takes over the place of the terrible noise that makes our windows vibrating “turrrrrrrrr” and drives me crazy. Having a spare battery fully recharged in my hand to slip it in under my pillow, I’d get into my bed. Then, I’d take my MP3 device that I put on the table next to me and start straiten out the twisted headphone wires. I’d switch the device on, check how much battery life remaining, make a little hole in my pillow and fit my head into it. I gently tuck the headphones into my ears, adjust the volume, and start flying.
This is “Where and how”.
And thank you for that!
All the best,
Ibrahim
Baghdad
From Gaborone, Botswana. I tend to read the threads first, and then listen to the podcasts. Trying to make a plan to listen to it online live one of these good days.
Great work !
Website is yet to be developed. Joining the end of the beatniks in 1962, I became a hippie flower child peacenik, and adopting rainbow and psychedelic colors helped send the message which went around the world from Haight-Ashbury in the “Summer of Love” 1967. When that message (and a garbled one it was!) seemed to be rejected by the society and government at large, I joined others who went around the world, seeking. Returning the the U.S.A. years later, where I have the right to speak out politically, I have worked to elect Barack Obama. Perhaps the Age of Aquarius is nearer implementation than ever before? I live on the Monterey Peninsula, California, USA, which has communities like Pebble Beach (a gated “town” of rich people who can afford to carry BBC radio for their children on KSPB, a private school’s radio station), Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, Seaside, Marina, etc. There seem to be two classes here: Those who have risen to the top of their communities, economically if not morally, and who bring their ‘loot’ to the Monterey Peninsula for a life of early retirement, golfing, restaurant dinning and ease, and then luxury end of life care. The others on the “Left Coast” seem to be the artists and creatives who work on the ideas and concepts which are copied across the U.S. and around the world. This is my first entry on the BBC site, and I can be easily encouraged. I started listening to the BBC on KSPB, but have switched to the internet. Often when the Stevenson School students took over their station to broadcast their student programs and their choice of extreme ‘music’ (like rap, etc.), I wanted to call in and request “Play the BBC!” I’m sure that request would not have been honored.
Hey Ros,
I’m Romane from Jamaica. I usually go to the worldhaveyoursay website, read the topic for the day then at about this time (1:05 p.m.) I tune in via my mobile phone on the FM band to the BBC World Service.
I could also listen online, but my speakers aren’t working 😦
I must add that i really appreciate the programme. I hope one day I’ll be able to build up enough courage to actually call in to express my views/opinions.
All the best,
Romane
Thanks romane, We’d love to hear your opinions if you call in. If you’re too shy to call, please let us know what you think on the blog.
Hi,
i’m listening your show via internet.
Ah, and i’m from Germany and i love your show 🙂
cya,
Sebastian.
I listen to KOPB in Portland, Oregon. Here in the U.S. there are few public radio stations broadcasting your show (or for that matter, much BBC content at all), so I am very happy to have discovered it. I’ll switch to podcasts when I move back to my hometown down South.
ILISTEN TO BBC ON THE WORLD SPACE RECEIVER.I MAKE SURE I LISTENWHEREVER I AM.I LUV UR SHOW.ITS LEKKA
I listen in Cleveland Ohio, I love your show, it is by far the best and most interesting to me……i absolutely love hearing from other people from all over the world….
Many times I have wanted to comment or call, but I am always in the car and can’t seem to catch the text number or phone number because they are so long…. 🙂
I usually listen on KXOT as I drive between classes that I teach on an adjunct basis.
I’m in Tacoma, Washington, USA. That’s the upper left hand corner of your USA map.
93.9 BBC Kenya, I love the non- partiality the BBC have
Hi Ros
I listen almost every evening on 98.7fm here in Blantyre, Malawi. The reception is usually excellent, much better than when we used to get the BBC on short wave.
Ros would you do a programme on the appalling situation in Zimbabwe. Here in Malawi the rains have begun and the people work so hard to plant their maize seeds and tend their gardens. Zimbabwe is almost next door and there the people have no seeds to grow and no fertiliser. They won’t be able to harvest sufficient food to help them through next season.The cholera situation is so sad and completely unacceptable. Why is the World letting Mugabe do this to his people?
Love the show!
I am listening to you via Podcast and am in New Zealand.
But only via this because it’s far too early to catch it live 🙂
I enjoy listening on Oregon Public Broadcast and viewing your website whilst listening. Thanks for your very interesting shows and for stimulating my morning weary brain.
Cheers,
Ron
I listen on the local FM, Internet and download the podcasts.
I listen to WCPN – Cleveland, in my car, on my TV and on the web – this is the most interesting program on the air today, it is so enlightening to hear different world views to topics that effect all of us here on this home we call planet Earth.
I listen to WGCU in Fort Myers, FL. I listen to National Public Radio all day, every day and particularly enjoy the BBC broadcasts.
Keep up the good work. By the way, my friend from the UK tells me no one does tea time at 4 anymore. I am crushed.
;o_
Don
I listen on the internet from Mexico city with very good quality. Congratulations on a great show!
I listen to a satelite radio in my car and on the internet at home. Too bad we can not watch BBC live on the internet. Can you guys do something about this?
Respectfully,\Cozmin
Listen on line and on DAB radio BBC World Service.
Excellent programme. I know you are trying to be fair and politically neutral. However I would like to know how the on-air interaction with guest speakers and ‘the public’ is separated from the personal baggage which all people including BBC staff surely must carry.
What criteria is used in the selection of articles posted on the blog, and what percentage of submissions are accepted.
Do you correct the odd spelling errors?
I listen to WGCU Ft. Myers, Florida. So looking forward to your upcoming visit here!
I listen via podcast every day, during my lunch break in Brisbane.
The podcast is sometimes frustrating when you think ‘I could really contribute well to this conversation!’ when you know the show was recorded hours ago. Still, it’s fascinating hearing everyone’s opinions and styles of argument. The wonder of modern technology!
I listen on XM Radio, which I have in one car and at work and at home, yes I have three of these radios. My office mates have to listen to the BBC between 11:00am and approx. 3:00pm on a daily bases. No one complains, as we are all sick of the US news sources (all of them). One can only endure stupidity, and dishonest reporting for so long.
BBC World Service – 96, 9 FM from Timişoara, Romania. Or on the internet.
I live on a narrow boat which is on the Lancaster Canal in the UK. I have mobile broadband which I use to access the Internet for my website(do visit). I also have a DAB radio.
I am listening from Berlin , Germany on 90.3 FM and I am very happy that that is possible so easily
I listen on 90.3 WCPN Cleveland, Ohio. They are an NPR station and they carry many BBC programs as well. I am a supporting member of the station because I want to do my part to make sure the great news and programs on Public radio keep coming.
Support Public Radio!
Today is my first visit to the website. perhaps I’ll check out the podcast and subscribe to the RSS.
I listen to the BBC in the south Indian state of Kerala. It comes on air here almost at the dead of the night.Still it is very much worth listening to . I use short wave frequency usually, though it’s available here on satellite radio.
Listening from within the UK via the 648Khz Orfordness transmitter using a homebuilt valve reciever. I havn’t touched the tuning dial in weeks!
All the best and kind regards, Robert B.
BBC World Service- I just discovered you guys. Great delivery.
I am listening on the Portland State Campus in Portland, Oregon, USA.
648 on the AM band in Belgium. Parts of Germany also, though in most of Germany BBC is not available. Before that I listened on the AM band in Israel. In the States, I could only find it if I had a shortwave radio. Hope that’s changed cause some day I’m going back there! And as angry as I get at BBC’s biased so-called “reporting”, it’s still far and away the best news org on the planet.
Today I listened to WHYS on 1026 ABC Newsradio but given my time zone it’s usually listened to online at the BBC website
Alan – Melbourne Australia
Our local public radio station here in Guelph Ontario carries the BBC World Service during the night time hours. At night I listen in on CFRU FM, and during the day I listen to the BBC World Service on line.
Greetings from Southwest Florida. I can tune into WHYS through WGCU at 90.1 FM, the local Public Broadcasting – and thank you Ros and crew for coming to Florida. It was an awesome show in the studio of WGCU. Come back when it is warmer 🙂
I listen either through the local NPR channel (wbur/boston) or online at the bbc.co.uk site.
I listen on shortwave in Bangalore India. keep up the good work
I am an Icelander living in Oregon, USA.. I listen to your program on NPR, Corvallis, Oregon at 10:00 am. I love to hear the different views on subject from all over the world.
I in Nepal and listen on FM radio. This program is very interesting and informative regarding different views and opinions of people.
Hi Ros. It will be a difficult time for me this year even listening to BBC and coming out for commercial internet like what i usual will be halted because of that School rules and regulations whhich doesn`t allow radios,Phones and the movement of student from the school`s gate especially on international student like me. What a great loss for me and it will start this week.
The Oregon coast (close to places with names like, ‘Dismal Nitch’ and, ‘Cape Disapointment’) Highest suicide rate in the USA, btw. Listen on OPB.ORG
I listen in my car on OPB 91.5FM in Portland OR and work through the NPR Website
EVERY MORNING on XM radio… all the way from Brazil.
you guys ARE fabulous!
I listen daily at work on NPR which is on WFYI 90.1 in Indianapolis
I listen to WHYS on KOAC 550 AM in Corvallis, Oregon, USA at 10:00 a.m. local time. It’s part of the OPB network area, Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Cheers!
I listened via internet via satellite.
North central Washington (Pacific Northwest)
I listen to live broadcast on Plains FM Christchurch New Zealand. The broadcast links up at Midnight and runs until 6am. Cant listen during daylight saving
because we are out of sync.
I am located just outside of Boston in the USA and listen to the BBC World Service via the Internet.
I am located in Grambling Lousiana and i listen to the BBC World Service via the Internet. I am from Caribbean Island St. Lucia
I listen through the BBC website….I used to watch on Wisconsin Public Radio at night time, but now I find my self listening to BBC World Service all day while at school and at work as well.
I am in Rochester New York and I listen online via the Vermont Public Radio website.
I live in Brisbane Australia and I enjoy listening to the BBC through ABC News Radio on 936 AM.
Discovering how the world lives and how it is affected by different events is very interesting, and with a list of great programmes and presenters, I’d rather do it nowhere else than the BBC.
I live in Belarus and listen to your program via my short-wave receiver, though sound quality sometimes leaves much to be desired. When it gets too bad, I go online.
I listen in Provo, Utah on the FM radio. I listen as I commute to work.
Hello There! I’m listening in Tillamook, Oregon (land of cheese, trees,and ocean breeze) to a broadcast out of Portland, Oregon by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Hi
I regularly listen to the program from Kuwait City on BBC 100.1 FM.
The OC -online
(aka orange county, CA)
WAS ON RADIO homeless 8 years – but out of car now just got housing/ basic cable
so got to figure how to access things indoors.
Bulgaria, in a village 20Km from Black Sea — via podcast
on the fm-radio in The Netherlands
Portland, Oregon : )
I am actually not listening at this time and it,s a relief . Sorry about that as you think you are the bees knees- now come on,you do too. You never stop blowing your horn over all the interfering in every other country,s business. You always have the answer to their particular woes,or that is the inference.There is always something questionable happening elsewhere. There was the case the other night on World service-and I was listening initially-the BBC reporter was in China and there were all these unemployed people looking through the posted work opportunities, and then the reporter having advised us of all this then remarked that what he was about to say we would find shocking. He then went on to explain how employers are looking for male applicants for the brainy smart jobs and female applicants for more simple work which didn,t require brains. Well I switched off at that point as I wasn,t prepared to be influenced by his personal assessment and opinion. As far as I am concerned it, most probably true and that,s why they advertise in that fashion. Me ? I haven,t got a problem with that and am not at all shocked – what exactly is the problem ?
BAHRAIN!!!
101.0 FM
I live in Naples Florida and listen to BBC via WGCU 98.1
USA , internet google desktop radio – world bbc news.
USA indiana
I’m from Cottage Grove, Oregon and listen on OPB.
just found site…..need sanity sometimes……found it in the world service
I listen with my radio here in Nigeria. The signals could be difficult to get, and i have to strain my ears. I love this programme because of the sincerity and unbiased way in which the programme is conducted.Kudos to you Ros Atkins et al.
I listen on 104.7 fm in Jamaica and online when I’m @ work.
I listen on 89.7 KOTD the dalles oregon a relay station for OPB
Toronto, Canada 🙂
I listen WHYS on 90.2 (BBC World Service) in Berlin, Germany and I have to say that I really love this radio show! 😉
Hi, this is Keggite from Nigeria. I like your programme. Love you all.
I listen to WHYS from Brussels (Belgium) on 648 AM Radio, most of the time in my car and sometimes, when I travel abroad, listening on my IPod to the podcast of those WHYS I missed before.
Love this program !
Hi, i listen with my radio in Nigeria. It is always fun .Love you all.
I hear this program and others on WFYI radio, and their online HD Radio link.
I ve been listening to the bbc since 1989,and have enjoyed every bit of ur program,especially d news,missed guys like robin white,josephin hasley,ben dotsemalor, davely travis of jollygoodshow, and so many pple like that, right now i listen to you from lagos in nigeria
Listening on 88.5 WFDD in Winston-Salem, North Carolina!
I know about BBC thanks to the TV channel broadcasted through a Cable TV operator in Bogotá Colombia, South America.
It is indeed upmost rewarding both intellectually and culturally for viewers of the third world of so called “developing” countries. Most of our local news are broadcasted within a framework of a provincialistic blindflolded viewpoint . Thanks to the BBC it is a relief to be aware of what is really happening in the world, being able to build and develop certain awareness of the global context instead of worrying about local happenings, mostly relating to violence, drugs, corruption, and local partisan small talk that leads nowhere if not connected to the world´s context. I wish politicians in my country would chose to enlighten their proposals grounded on what is happening in the world.
A we say in Spanish, “they can only view the trees instead of the forest.”
I listen in the middle of the night dozing on the couch by the fire in my backwoods, off-the-grid cabin in N. Minnesota. BBC WORLD has made a connection with me with urgent stories that broaden my perspective. I still have a long way to go on perspective, like a manageable improvement perhaps. It is paradox, as I benefit from the Thoreau’s Cabin attunement with nature behind a barrier to humanity if I desire.
I find Rebecca Kezbee and other voices very interesting to follow while half concious, sometimes becoming alert to the story unraveling.
The rushing world is stark perspective from here where it gets utterly silent, to the point it seems I can actually hear the stars. I feed the birds, squirrels, a rabbit and the deer. It is very peacefull and beautiful. I trek out of it, the realm you know, several times weekly for accounting classes in town about 12 miles away. Get groceries at WALMART and use internet hotspots with my laptop. Right now I’m washing clothes.
Capitalism works only if major exploitation of natural resources is profitable. Humanity needs to back-off and seriously rethink its approach to survival on this planet. Generally the capitalism mentality is very bad for it, and there is trouble when resources become unexploitable for huge profits.
I’ll put up 400 watts solar array soon and be able to get along very well without the gas generator to charge batteries. You know there is a nifty modification to use the boost setting all the time for two batteries in parallel? I added a fan to cool the transformer and it is A-OK. So i will be working on a prioritizing battery charger soon.
Getting an accounting degree may help, but I like EBAY for selling small production electronics devices. The prioritizing battery charger will never become obsolete.
I pay zero prinicple, zero insurance on my home, zero electric bill, zero telephone so I can keep building my cabin on 240 dollars a week.
BBC World has awakened me to something much closer to sensing the purpose and urgency of being alive than my politicized, euthanizing, control-freak, wacko, censored American commercialized emporium can be given credit for doing. But then, I have no child either.
Hey! B B C selling my home of 14 years 5 years ago was a huge problem with investment losses, but the government caught me in a safety net and put me into school with extended unemployment, books and tuition paid. Its called the Trade Act Assistance program created in the seventies. I must relent that is helps.
BBC world is my only source of real, broad perspective on humanity. Americans are going to football and WALMART.
Hi, i live here in Nigeria and i listen with my radio. The programme is very interesting.
I’m in Kansas City. I listen online and get almost all of my information from abroad. Here, media is controlled by a small number of conglomerates. So, you do what you have to.
Do I have to thank Al Gore for this? He did invent the Net, right :)?
I listen the BBC radio in France on the radio waves 648 MW
i don’t speak a very good english language but i fullfill it with the programs in the BBC,
i like it, and more over there is no advertising, not like in France, it’s better !
thanks the BBC!!
Right now, I’m in Sichuan province, China. I have been listening to bbc world service via radio since 2002, the year I entered the university as an English major . Just now, I heard your journalists saying that in China, people could not listen to bbc via radio because of the government’s prohibition, which proves, absolutely not true. You see, I can listen to it freely although we not have such access 24 hours a day.
I listen through internet or radio receiver in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Karibu.
I listen, usually in my car, through WGCU from Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.
At work, London Ontario Canada.
From a marina in New Zealand. We’re online each day except when the wi fi signal suffers the strain of too many people skyping home!
I listen online in San Diego, California through your BBC webpage feed. It is so easy to be lulled to sleep by the American media, so obtaining a different view point helps keep me grounded and aware that there’s a much bigger world out there.
I listen on my mobile phone on MHz 92.1 in Budapest!
Or I follow the program online..
You guys are great, I love the British accent! 🙂
I listen online in Los Angeles.
I now live in Munich, Germany (spent most of my life in Zimbabwe) Your podcast does an excellent job of making my train journey to work in the morning a lot more enjoyable. Well done!
I listen online or through WFYI 90.1 in Indianapolis, IN. I try to catch it everyday if I can.
I listen to your program on 88.5 FM WFDD, broadcast from Winston Salem, N Carolina.
I listen daily via XM Radio in Northern California
Like many others listed here, I listen to you on OPB radio 550 AM in Corvallis, Oregon. Thankfully they carry you – something besides another NPR show with nice polite questions and no follow-up to get to the point.
Portland, OR. Usually while I’m working at Papa Murphy’s Pizza in the morning, prepping pizza ingredients. Unfortunately my coworkers aren’t as in to it as me… would rather listen to pop music?!
Hi,
I’ve been listening on FM – KSPB Pebble Beach just across Monterey Bay from here inn Santa Cruz, CA, US. I’ve been listening for at least 6 years and wrote to BBC several times asking why KSPB was not listed as an FM station in US. Never received an answer.
I’m in Chiang Mai Thailand for 4-5 months/year. Voice reception via True Cable is Fair, but band not broad enough for news videos on BBC News.
Thanks for keeping me in touch with the world.
Bernie
I listen to WFYI 90.1 which broadcasts from Indianapolis, but reaches Danville, IN (work), Franklin, IN (home), and points in between in the car. I tend to loose reception around Greencastle, IN.
I listen on my drive to school every day on KOPB in Eugene, Oregon!
I listen in Budapest on my Car radio every evening on way back from work , this is a BBC/RFI channel on 92.1 FM, the only english channel (partly) in Budapest.
I live in Eastern, KY and listen to NPR on 89.1, WOUB.
I listen on public radio station KUHF in Houston, TX.
I listen as little as possible but when I do then at home I listen in to BBC world service until I cant stand it any more – I prefer Aljazeera TV news,Press TV and RTL – these are excellent news outlets
Hi, I live in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela. I listen BBC in radio UC 104.5 FM, and mainly live in internet. I listen every day while i am working in my office or home. Listening is a way to improve my english and keeping me update.
My name is Richard and I listen to World Update every morning in Boston, Mass in USA via the BBC web site.
I usually listen for one hour at either 6:30 or 7:30.
I listen to keep up with international news, which does get good coverage by US commercial networks.
I like the BBC coverage of “smaller country” news eg Gurkhas in Nepal, the Civil War in Sri Lanka. I also like to hear a continuing series such as the Indian Train reports.
I do not need BBC to cover things like Mid East Troubles that are NOT new, but chronic.
Keep up the good work.
I live in Dover, Kent County, Delaware, USA and listen to public radio station WSCL, 89.5, from Salisbury University, Maryland at 05:00. I listen to BBC for another, albeit Yank friendly, perspective on the World, the US, and Europe’s rock-star political leaders. And now we have our own rock-star. Let’s hope the World, or at least the West, can be in harmony now. I like how Dan Damon won’t let a politician side-slip a tough question.
Good Morning. I’m a french speaking canadian from the Montral area, Quebec.
I listen to the BBC World Service which is transmitted by the Vermont Public Radio during the night, during period of insommia. I praised BBC to give me views of idea from all around the world. I am particularly interested in science, technologoy and political analysis. You are doing a good job. However, there is a lot of redundancy in the news presentation every half hours.
Ben
I listen to WHYS on my way to work in the morning at 5am Eastern time. My husband and I drive to work and I put the radio on to hear what has happened in the world overnight. I listen to WHYY from Philadelphia. I really like the perspective I get from the BBC. It’s interesting to get a non-US view of the world.
I listen in the NY area on WNYE beginning at 0500 hrs. Unfortunately WNYE cuts you off at 0600. I find Dan a very good source of unbiased news reporting and questioning. I can’t think of any major improvements to what you’re doing although I’m sure others can. Keep on doing what you do so well.
Dick
Thanks for your reply to the pitch for information on our listeners. I’ve been amazed at the response to be honest. World Update goes off the air at 6am, so you would be able to hear any more of our programme, though the BBC World Service does continue after that time, but I guess WNYE have their own programmes that they’d like you to listen to also!! Anyway, again many thanks for getting back to us.
I listen in Port of Spain Trinidad. In the morning while jogging on my walkman and while driving to and from work and to pick up kids from school. Find most of your topics interesting, but would like to hear more about the true costs of the products we consume, including environmental cost, and programs about the origin of the current monetary system and what are the possible alternatives. Keep on doing a great job.
I listen Monday – Friday at night. I like hearing the news from all over the world. With an unbias take on it. I do have a question. Why is it that most countrys want the Sir Lekan army to stop fighting and give the tamal tigers time to regroup and attack again. This seems to me why we have so many wars going on. Hamas hides in nighbor hoods and shoots missils from them. Then when people get hurt people blame Isreal not Hamas. This is the same thing the Tigers are doing. I think they should finish the Tighers and end the war.
Every morning I get up, make my coffee, go to my computer and listen to BBC news for an hour. New reporting on both radio and especially television iin the US is bad particularly for international news. The BBC makes it possible to stay informed. Keep doing what you are doing!!!!
I listen via the WFYI Indianapolis 90.1 HD stream, while in the WFYI building. It’s almost too much.
I live in Belfast Maine and listen to you on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, 90.9, from 5:00 am to 6:00 am and then they switch NPR. I like the political news and would like to hear more about what’s happening in Europe. I agree with Harry from Delaware about Dan Damon. He’s great with politicians!
I am from China and now studying in Tokyo.I listen to WHYS through Podcasts. Interesting program and I really like it. Why not make a live program in China or Japan?I would love to participate if there is a chance.
English?Ah… That’s the problem.
My name is Ken and I listen to your programme in Orlando Florida on 90.7 FM. NPR I am delighted to hear news from a good source every morning. Dan Damon is brilliant with his interviews and mannerism. He articulates very well. Please continue to keep us informed and updated. I enjoy BBC news coverage because I was born in the Caribbean where BBC international news is popular. I feel at home when I listen to your coverages.
thanx a lot…………….Ken
I’m from Spain and I listen the programme via Internet. I don’t know if any Spanish radio station broadcasts WHYS.
Bye!
I listen in on KERA (Dallas) during my 40 minute commute to work at 4am. I’ve been listening since 1995, while living in Puerto Rico, when a hurricane left us without power for several weeks and the only entertainment we had came from short-wave radio. Since then, public radio’s always on when I’m driving.
Hi I am Ivan and I am from Inala in Brisbane Australia. I listen to World have your say from a Kit radio i Soldered together 4 years ago, i think it is signal 93.3… unfortunately I did not solder the screen properly so I am unable to see the frequency anymore..
Love the Show
Ive
Hi,
I’m Stephanie and I’m from Brazil. I live in a city called Belo Horizonte, but unluckily I can’t listen to the BBC in any radio here, so I download the podcast and listen on my iPod.
Gday,
I’m listening to WHYS on ABC News Radio 585 in Perth, Western Australia.
– Brent
Hi, I am Yury from Malta and listen to the BBC on my way from home to work in the mornings. It is broadcast on Campus FM 103.7
I listen from the Niger-Delta city of Port Harcourt. Of course through the time-tested Short-wave Radio.
I mostly listen to WHYS on the car radio on my way home from work. Transmission is from an FM relay station.
Keep going!
I listen to the BBC Word Service usually on weekends on ABC Newsradio 972am in Adelaide, South Australia. It’s great keep it coming!
i listen in cannon beach, oregon streaming OPB on my computer.
keep up the good work! i love this show!
I listen to BBC in northern Arizona, on the rim of a crater, overlooking the Navajo Reservation with wireless Internet, in my house that is completely run on solar power.
Listening from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
I listen online as well as on the radio via our local PBS radio station.
My husband Stephen listens to OPB 91.5 on the radio and I usually stream from the OPB website while I’m at work. We also both enjoy listening to the podcasts.
Thanks to Ros and the rest of the WHYS team! We really enjoyed meeting all of you during your trip to Portland last week!
I listen to this great show whenever I can, either over the radio through the OPB affiliates in Corvallis and Portland Oregon or on the web. I am a semi-retired math teacher originally from Louisiana and now live in a small town near Salem, Oregon. Thanks to all on your staff for the great work. It makes the news come alive to me to hear the real opinions of people around the world. I no longer have to depend on the networks to feed me the news they want me to hear.
How do I listen to BBC radio in Ibadan Nigeria…I just mooved from Ghana ….where I was always in tune with the world through BBC radio
I listen on FM 98.7 in Trinidad, West Indies. I really enjoy BBC world service and particularly this show. I have been living here for the last 30 years, originally from England. BBC world service brings me my home every day! I love it!
I am listening via http://news.bbc.co.uk/ link whenever I’m home here in Manila, Philippines.
Hello…i have been listening to WHYS on FM in Kuwait for several months now.
Have found the time to start posting only a few days back.
anu_D
Kuwait
When I am at work I listen on-line. If I take my lunch at the right time, I listen on 90.1 FM NPR radio. If I miss the show, I listen on-line at home. I’m truly addicted.
I listen at work via the internet in Phoenix, Arizona
Listen to BBC World Service via the INTERNET or Live mornings on Hott 98.5 FM in Grenada.
I ‘m here in Brooklyn, and I listen to WHYS on WNYC FM Radio, New York.
I’m listening on BBC XM Channel 131 in Warrensburg, Missouri.
I listen on FM radio as well WGCU 90.1 out of Ft. Meyers, Naples area. I can listen as far as Sarasota and enjoy listening to your show everyday.
I listen in Israel on 1323 am from your relay station in Cyprus. Mostly I use the wind-up radio I won in an Outlook contest!
Listening from USA/Silicon Valley typically I listen
either via the internet radio app in my mobile handset
or via internet on computer; more often than not on
the handset – like the modern/hi-tech version of the
old portable transistor radio I suppose!
It’s a shame that so much of the Beeb’s radio content
is so closely tied to the iPlayer unlike the MP3 feed
from WHYS and World Service Briefing. :((
Everyday as i get into my car, the first thing i do is to switch on my Radio, to hear the 0500 GMT news update on FM in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
I have four ways of listening to the BBC. online , on the cables, on mw 648 or on the hotbird sat. i live in paris France.
I enjoy listening in Creve Couer, MO (St. Louis Suburb) Midwest, USA on local NPR station KWMU.
THANKS!
I listen on my way to work via BBC World Service on NPR from local station WFYI.
Sorry Ros could not make it to Indiana, maybe next time..
Jackson, MS, USA via the Internet. I’m a BBC World junkie.
88.5 WFDD on the radio. Always listen in the car. WHYS comes on while I”m out for lunch. It is out of Winston Salem, NC, but I am actually in Boone, NC – western NC mountains.
Hi, I’m in London. I download my selection of podcasts, including WHYS, each morning as I get ready to go to work, then I listen on the way on the tube.
I started with the podcasts because the tube is so packed with people that it is difficult to have space to read a book and hold on at the same time!.. but now I am hooked. I also listen to the BBC World Service Global News podcast and the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme – I only discovered WHYS a little while ago but it is my new favourite!
I listen on the BBC ‘relay’ in Phnom Penh Cambodia.
I work in Air Traffic Control in both Phnom Penh and Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) International Airports, but am a Brit Ex-pat, and like to keep up with what’s going on back ‘home’.
The short wave is not very easy to receive at home, mainly because of the local RFI from phone chargers and general electrical interference, causing havoc on HF frequencies (I use my Icom IC-706 MKII-g transceiver to listen, with a G5RV antenna)
It’s good to know that I can hear crystal clear BBC on FM in both major tourist cities in Cambodia.
If you’re coming out this way (not recommended during the rainy season of June to October when it’s around 32C and VERY wet), then you can keep up with the BBC on 100.000 MHz in Phnom Penh and 99.250 MHz in Siem Reap (Angkor Wat).
Cheers all;
Paul
Cambodia Air Traffic Services
XU7ADQ
KTXT in Lubbock Texas
We spend some time in Liguria,Italy,have a SW radio but rarely pick up World Service,very frustrating in view of the lousy radio stations available in Italy. Any suggestions? We do not have access to a PC.
Tony
I done listen to radio some time, I take my time listening bbc service and internet at working place, in South Sudan- Abyei Area, my friend and I like bbc is our home of getting news from, I am between the heros boarder that why I like listening news because we don’t get news paper to read.
I like BBC services news because it give more inform about world, I take my time listening to good news about problem and way of living, aim in South Sudan – Abyei boarder between south and north Sudan, I wish Ahasan Aruni can come back again and see Abyei again, I do got the news throught radio and internet because I don’t get new papers to read.
I listen BBC from Bogotá, Colombia. I enjoy the international character of BBC. Now I am interested, for example, in what is happening and what could happen in Honduras. I don´t like the arrogance of the new “government”. Some space of discussion should be allowed. The people of Honduras deserves that.
in Berlin simply the FM station
here in Bordeaux i have to turn on the computer and listen online
Melbourne Australia – We listen on a PC, streaming from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
Lately we have also been listening to the World Service on a Nokia E71 mobile phone using the WiFi in the house (so the phone becomes a rather bizarre portable radio…)
Overnights in Melbourne BBC is on 1026 ABC News Radio and 1179 AM Radio for the Print Handicapped).
I listen on the xm radio that I have at home and work and in the car. I listen about three hours a day.
Boston then Washington D.C.
I listen to you on KWMU St. Louis, MO USA. I enjoy the program and love the BBC in general. I miss the old World Service and the more eclectic programing and audio dramas that BBC carried in the old days, but times change I suppose..
Keep up the good work.
I listen at work every morning from Santa Cruz, California in the U.S. I truly enjoy listening to what other people around the world think about current events. At the same time it makes me feel connected with the world.
Keep up the good work!
I am listening all important s on TV,Radio player,some times from Indian Newspapers,through your advanced details by my e-mail,some link to famous social websites and mainly from broad band internet connections.i am a unpaid contributor to BBC world Services.
Happy with BBC.
I listen online on my wee boat in Marina de La Paz in Baja California Sur, Mexico. If you could just give a little more inforation on Carlisle United, I’d be grateful though I appreciate that it may not be of much interest to many.
I live in Portland, Oregon. I have Oregon’s subsidized medical insurance for people unable to get health insurance because of an pre-existing condition (in my case breast cancer over six years ago). I don’t know anyone, Republican or Democrat that is happy with our health care system.
Hi Ros,
I live in Pulau Batam,Indonesia, GMT+7 and a 40 minutes ferry ride from Singapore.
I Take the BBC from your Singapore relay.
BTW there have been a lot of boo boos just recently.
BST announced as GMT
5 pips instead of 6
Sometimes no pips at all
Kindest regards
Peter Sidwell.
Hi Ros,
Peter Sidwell again
There is someting wrong wiyj the line-feed (CHR12)
All the lines are overlapping.
Rehards
I listen to WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana, USA
It’s ironic really, living in the homeland of the BBC that I can’t get World Service on my fm wireless. Have to wait till I get home and listen on DAB. On all the time, go to bed with it and wake up with it. Still. I receive the daily emails and podcasts so listen on my iPod. Love the BBC. Must get myself a World Service t-shirt!.
I am listenting on my FM radio in Car and at Home in Timisoara(Romania)
I hope you will keep the brodcasting fm because this is the only radio that i listening in my car and like me ar more but they don’t give feedback(so have in mind that people listen)
I listee on 98.6 in Port of Spain Trinidad W.I
I listen when I can, in the car or at home,at 1pm on WCPN. That’s public radio Cleveland, Ohio. USA. It’s a great program and I love it’s world wide reach.
I listen to BBC world service via Google gadgets in Gunnison, Colorado. I teach political science and cannot imagine a better way to stay informed, interest my students and stay critical.
Thanks you
I’m listening to BBC World Service online via Livestation program. I’m in Konya, province of Turkey.
I am listening from Toronto, Canada. I listen online through Media Player.
KOPB in Eugene
I listen in Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
I have been a short wave BBC World Service listener for what seems like forever. As an example, I followed the Faulklands War on BBC short wave. I hung in on SW until programs in English became few and far between, but by then the local internet connections had gotten robust enough to listen to World Service over the internet.
Listening to this clear signal every morning it is hard to believe that we used to listen to the news obscured by static and the fading in an out of short wave transmission.
On my phone in Kathmandu, Nepal.
in Nairobi Kenya on 93.9 FM
In Indianapolis, Indiana USA on WFYI 90.1 FM and via Sirius Satellite Radio.
In Malta (Europe), I used to listen to BBC WS on short wave, with one set in the bedroom, and another in the bathroom!
However when the shortwave service was discontinued in my area, I invested in a DAB digital radio, but the only World Service reception available was the African edition. So I got a digital radio with Internet and now can chose an station in the world, tuning in to the European edition.
The good thing about this radio is that it is already programmed to tune in to podcasts. My other favorites are BBC 4 and BBC Live 5.
Long live the BBC
I am having servere with drawals, my satalite radio at work is temperory out of commission at work. But, I have my home unit and car unit so, I am not climbing the walls with regular radio. I also watch BBC America on the cable box at home so that I dont loose my ear for the Brittish/Irish/Welsh accent. Do you all have a lot of trouble getting the pace and pronunciation of American english? Oh yea, the phrase “The queens english” has a little bit different meaning over here. Usually our Queens are in “drag”, and have a five o,clock shadow. Nothing is worse than seeing womens makeup on top of a bit of stubble. Think, Rocker Alice Cooper in flowing chafon and silk with his usual unshaved face. Wow, bad memories of afternoons during Marde Grade in New Orleans. Guys in drag needing a shave.
See what happens when I dont have my sattlite radio to keep from wondering mentally! Way too scary.
Thanks,
Frank Drago
Oh yea I vote for a Spell Checker in the “Leave a Reply window, not every one gets to learn how to spell in Louisiana. Yea, we spell with a Cajun accent. So it is like dem wrds have a mine of dey own.
Ci, ya’ll.
Hello,
I am from Houghton-Le-spring Co.Durham in the NE of England.
I have been in the USA since 1991.
I now live and work in Portland, Oregon USA and listen to WHYS on 91.5 OPB.
Love the show Ros.
Cheers,
Leslie (Male UK spelling)
In Finland; I listen to the BBC World Service via the Internet on computer or online via Livestation.
I listen to BBC World Service on my radio both at home and at work on 101.3 FM in Kampala, Uganda.
I listen on KSPB, 91.9 FM, broadcasting from Pebble Beach (Monterey), California.
I’m in Santa Cruz, approx 70km N, across the bay.
BBC content is exponentially superior to commercial media in the US (including NPR). The only serious challengers available in the US are Democracy Now (but only 1 hr, M-F) and Al Jazeera English (which is arguably better than BBC, but in the US it can only be seen online).
I listen to you on BBC World Service in Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
via Internet streaming
BBC World Service on 88.9 FM in Singapore
On occasion, for better sound quality, I listen to the digital stream via Livestation.
Fort Worth, Texas ..Listen on PBS and when I’m online I let BBC stream while I am cruising the internet.
An earlier post refered to the bias present in most of the local news and I have to agree with that.
You guys just seem to deliver (The Facts) I thank you for that.
I listen to your show through KCRW’s feed on the internet, while in Berlin.
Love technology.
Franzi
I am in Rockcliffe Park, Ontario, Canada, and I am NOT listening because the BBC made the totally daft decision to end shortwave broadcasts to North America. Your executives did so at a time when the BBC’s radio audience in Canada and in the USA was increasing dramatically. All kinds of excuses were offered at the time, non of them logical. Nuts!!
Radio:WGCU,FT. Myers Florida and online.
From my personal walkman, FM 100.1. 😛
hi ros how are you doing over there? i listen on bbc world service, through from internet, i really really like it, am so happy when the good proggram is goin on, i do participate it while am here in south africa, port-elizabeth
bye suleiman
I love your show and listen on satellite radio in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I am a 38 year old college student and find your show very informative and engaging. I finally feel like a member of the global community. I love hearing about issues across the world and from average citizens like me. The level of reporting on the BBC to me is much more preferable than what we get in the US media where superfluous headlines about movie stars are commonplace.
I listen via the podcast while driving to work. I am originally from Porthmadog N Wales but have lived in Long Beach CA USA for the past 9 years.
well since there’s no actually bbc word service in richmond va (GRRR) the nearests closests station are the two feeds from Charlottesville’s two radio IQ stations 89.7 & 91.5 which you can luckly pick up from the west end and the southside if radio IQ could have a local mirror that would be the best thing in the world.
i listen to the bbc on my mp3 player….i live in spanish town,jamaica…….i rencently heard a news story about british goverment usin public money to buy stuff for them self well in jamaica the goverment do the same thing the only thing is they use it to buy cars,house and other stuff for criminal who are area leader in there consitiuency…..goverment are real thief in every aspect of life it dont matter what country they govern….. they are the same!!!!
I’m in the US, and listen via the iPlayer or the podcast. Hopefully it’ll be on public radio here soon!
I live in the north woods of Wisconsin*, in the USA. Your website and streaming is a wonderful thing. There are no US radio news sources that come close to the quality
of your reporting. National Public Radio pales in comparison.
WHYS comes on at lunch time here, so I rarely miss the program. The astonishing thing about your callers, [whether from Dakar, Singapore, or Wellington] is their knowledge and understanding of the United States. The was apparent during the
presidential election, a year ago. Many thanks to the reporters and new readers of the BBC
* 550 km north of Chicago
90.3 WCPN in Cleveland, Ohio, in my car during my lunch break.
The first show I listened to was about Kanye West’s behavior, and since then I’ve been hooked.
90.3 WCPN in Cleveland, OH. Either in my house or streaming from the WCPN website at the office.
am listening via Internet on top of amountain in Baqueira a Spanish ski resort. have an Internet radio and listen everywhere I go
I listen(when able) via internet from the BBC World Service here in serene southern Indiana. I cannot thank BBC and the WHYS team sufficiently for the privelege of hearing voices from places to which I will likely never travel. It gives me reason to hope for the salvation of humanity, when I hear reason and rationality from so many quiet voices, from so many places where harsh realities might militate against them.
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I listen to BBC on my local NPR station, in Boston, Massachusetts, via regular radio. (i.e., not via website streaming).
Just learned about you yesterday and listened online. Got information on the fidelity show from http://polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/.
I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. I see if you come on our local NPR station.
I listen to the BBC news hour broadcast at 9:00 a.m. via NPR affiliate KPCC 89.3 in Los Angeles/Pasadena, California. However, I listen via the web daily and appreciate the BBC alerts via computer. I am a news junkie and cannot imagine life without the BBC and NPR. I do wind down with CNN and MSNBC on occasion.
Hi I listen to the World Service most days on the Greek Island of Kalymnos in the eastern Aegean. I listen via satellite, usually Hotbird 6 . Unfortunately my internet connection is too slow (56kbs via GRPS) in this area for comfortable listening. No broad band is yet available, OTE, the Greek landline phone provider, keep saying it will reach us in two months, but they’ve been saying that for two years now.
My car radio is permanently tuned to 88.9 FM, the BBC channel in Singapore. When I drive, morning to work and evening back home, I listen to BBC
In the netbar(Quite Chinglish)
Occasionally, not so often now, in employment, too much annoyance
but during my college life, I used to listen to BBC programme, when I put on the earphone I felt myself in another world
This programme quite official and long-time lasting
I like it
Hello,
UK_Les here, Born in the UK in Co Durham and now living in Portland, Oregon on the left coast…of the good old USA.
Listen to OPB daily for the BBC world updates early in the morning on the radio.
Miss F1 and WRC and the Isle of Man bike racing…
Cheers WHYS,
UK_Les
here in Grenada, West Indies, i can now listen to you via the world service widget on my blog . thank you xxx
still here in alabama, usa. they move my desk now i cant get the bbc on my xm at work for the time being, however it has forced me to get xm for the automobile i am starting to have the shakes from lake of xm. uuummmm sounds like a personal problem!!!!!!!!!!
I listen to your show over the internet.
But I was fed up of carrying my laptop around the house, so now for the past year I use wireless headphones so I can walk from room to room without missing any word you say!
Ana in Gran Canaria. I download the programmes in my I-pod and I play them several times. It helps me to improve my English level.
i catch the show in trinidad . wish we had that caliber of debate here. GREAT JOB GUYS!!
I listen to the newspod in the car on the way to work in Brunei. I just have time to download the programme before I leave the house. My only disappointment is having nothing to listen to on Monday morning; does the world really stop for sport for two days?
Listen to WHYS on 93.9 BBC Kenya…love your topics esp. the one on Who’s the world’s Boss.
I listen on my bedside transistor radio. FM. Swedish radio broadcasts BBC world radio from 22.30 until 06.00 (07.00 at weekends). It’s my foremost source of world news and fascinating interviews.
Hi Ros,
Phil In UK
I listen on my radio next to my PC. Usually the BBC News – while I publish and promote my web-sites.
hi there!!! I´m juan carlos from havana!!! would you like to send me an e mail? I read you on BBC. is it possible to get in touch through e mail?
write also to
thanks !!!
I listen from Dili, Timor Leste
Hi Ros
I listen to RTL 104,6 Berlin
Hiya Ros, – Love seeing where everyone around the World is actually from and what some of them are all doing whilst listening in! Makes me feel quite drab in our grey old UK climate! Your WHYS comments websites tend to email me first with requests for comments on your different Topics….so I tend to keep up with all the online comments that come in throughout the day more than I do with actually listening to radio…. But, when I do listen in – its either via *BBC online* or your BBC World Service Radio on our Cable TV (Virgin – Channel 906) – – crazy really, because with all the mad tech we have in the house, we don’t actually have a digital radio yet !!! … Still not clear about the UK going digital over analogue but the BBC have made so many other mediums available to listen to them with, that it really doesn’t matter!
For our overseas friends – I live a bit like a ‘Hobbit’ in the beautiful mild rolling countryside of middle-England (Heartfordshire), UK, and more realistically – in possibly the midst of some of the Atlantics’ and Europe’s craziest weather patterns ! 😀 – Have a nice day! LOL X
Sorry should have added – if people wanted to comment online to the various topics aired – they need to subscribe (its free) to the BBC World ‘Have Your Say’ pages to get email comment requests for their various topics (go to the section “World Have your say” etc) ! I’ve added this because WHYS don’t advertise this enough! ) 🙂 Good Luck!
Hi World Have your Say,
I listen via the podcast because I live in South America in Peru, I download it and then I listen it when I am at University, You do have a really original programme and should never stop.
Bye bye for now.
I am looking for listening the next programme.
Hi, I listen to BBC on FM 100.0 in Kampala.
Shortwave radio all my life, recently FM local BBC from Barbados. BBC television, and the difficult attempt at finding something you have only heard part of, and want to persue further from BBC on the web. Can never find the rest of it on the web.
I only receive the news hour edition to the caribbean!!! sometimes I can access the bbc web site where i found very interesting articles related to health which I share with my medical sciences students, I´m a teacher at havana School of medicine. I consider BBC as a very truthful mean of information. I would like to have you more on short wave.
from havana , cuba
juan carlos dominguez I´m not able to receive the dayli mail because this is not my computer , so this is only a report. but anyway I visit the web anytime I can and listen the program. thank you bbc!!
I listen BBC via my phone on 95.7 in Bamenda , Cameroon . I am a student and often get my information from BBC . I will like to always give my view on some points .
How can I have the BBC call me ?
I listen via the Internet or to any BBC Podcasts I can find. Good old New Zealand have such restricted access to World Service that there is not much choice I am afraid. Anyone got friends in high places at National Radio NZ who can pursuade them to transmit more World Service?!!!!!!
Hi: I hope you read this on the air.. …I listen in on the NPR station 91.5 FM in Vancouver, Washington State. Your listeners may not know but there is a 2nd city on the West Coast of North America which is named after the good Capt. Vancouver. It is just North of the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. It is also situated on a section of the river which is unique as it turns and flows north at Vancouver. Most of the world great rivers flow East-West. Execpt of course the Nile which almost exclusively flows North.
Anyways I listen to WHYS secretly while at work in a food processing plant I am reminded everyday by someone that I should be glad to have a job working for minimum wage. Ironically my last decent paying job was outsourced to India. I have been a lifelong listener to BBC and your program is one reason I stay grounded, informed and sane in a terrible economy. I am originally from Sri Lanka having travelled the world in the 70’s and 80’s being in the merchant marine, having lived Australia on different occations and eventually migrated and raised a family in the Pacific Northwest region of the US. Keep up the great work and I think the SuperPower Nation should be used as a model for the next generation of young thinkers and leaders of the world we share as a model to shape a new global consiousness and focus on peace around the world thru better communications between the people. I think young people are the key to social change. Just like the people who raised the bar with civil rights anti -vietnam movement and I think the world is ready for the young people to stand up and make their voices heard in the halls of power where ever they may be.
ps. The US Supreme Court recently conclued that a corporation can and has the constituional right to pay anything it wishes to any political campaign and does not have diviluge that information as it infringes on its free speech rights.
Barcelona, Spain!