If you’re a BBC Radio fan, the only way you can listen to stations in the UK on your smartphone is through the BBC Sounds website, or the BBC Sounds Android or iOS app.
Whilst BBC Radio was once available through TuneIn, support was removed back in 2019. ForGoogle Home speakerusers, BBC stations can be listened to viaChromecastor your voice, whileAmazon Echousers can use the BBC Alexa skill to access BBC radio stations.
Sonos speakers retained support for BBC Radio stations via TuneIn a little longer, but that support is no more with BBC Sounds now the only way going forward. Don’t worry though. BBC Sounds is available onSonos speakersafter it was added in late 2021.
Here is how to add BBC Sounds and listen to BBC Radio on your Sonos sound system.
Sonos Era 100
The Sonos Era 100 is a new era - pun entirely intended - for Sonos speakers. It takes the company’s excellent entry-level speaker and gives it a make-over, both internally and externally. There is so much to love about it that we can definitely forgive Sonos for replacing the excellent One.
How to add BBC Sounds to your Sonos speaker
Sonos is compatible withover 100 music services, BBC Sounds being one of them as we mentioned. It’s super easy to add a music service to your Sonos speakers and the more services you add, the better your experience will be.
You’ll find all the BBC radio stations, podcasts and music mixes on BBC Sounds. You can listen live to all BBC radio stations, catch up or listen to your favourite BBC shows, continue listening where you left off on any device and use the My Sounds section to see latest episodes from your favourite programmes.
You might find you are greeted with a pop up when you open yourSonos appfor a quick way to add BBC Sounds to your system. If you see the pop up appear, tap ‘Add to Sonos’ and then tap ‘Add to Sonos’ again and follow the instructions 7-15 below.
If the BBC Sounds pop up doesn’t appear for you, follow these steps:
How to set BBC Radio as an alarm on Sonos
Sonos has plenty of features, one of which is the ability to set alarms. you’re able to choose to set an alarm on a specific speaker, or a group of speakers, and you can choose what music, podcast, playlist or chime you want to be woken up with.
While you can’t choose a specific BBC Radio programme to wake you up in the morning, you can choose your favourite BBC Radio station to wake you up - it will just be live rather than a catch up programme.
Want to know more?
We’ve gotloads of Sonos tips and tricks in our separate featureso if you want to get the most out of your Sonos speakers, we recommend heading there.
