BBC World Service

BBC World Service is the BBC's international radio network, providing news, current affairs, analysis, documentaries and features to a worldwide audience in English. It is one of the best-known global broadcasters, offering reporting from correspondents around the world around the clock.

It is operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the UK's public service broadcaster. The service started in 1932 as the Empire Service and has since grown into a large multilingual operation, with the English-language channel at its core. This stream is the English-language news internet feed, which is made available to listeners outside the United Kingdom as well as inside it, and is also the source that some public radio stations around the world rebroadcast.

Expect frequent news bulletins, interviews, discussion programmes, business and sports reports, and longer documentaries with a global perspective rather than a UK-only one. The tone is factual and informative, and the programmes are aimed at a general adult audience that wants to follow international events. The feed is an adaptive HLS stream at up to 320 kbps, designed for listeners on the internet worldwide, and it should work in most modern players and browsers that support HLS.