Times Radio - Listen Live 12+

I have enjoyed listening to Times Radio since it first came on the air in 2020. I find the range of topics covered on the station keeps me well informed on the modern world and sometimes history.

Some of your presenters are top class. The ones I listen to most, Matt Chorley and Mariella Frostrup I particularly enjoy, listening to.

I like the columnists from the Times being involved in the programs, there are some excellent contributions. It brings the quality of the paper to the airwaves.

Some of the adverts are very repetitive and kept on the station for so long that they become very annoying. You might say putting you off what they have to offer!

One of my pet hates are the McDonald’s adverts. Not only are they repetitive but also, I believe, give misleading information about their commitment to healthy food. The adverts are in direct contrast to much of the radio stations coverage of health issues, particularly obesity.

I understand that there have to be adverts to fund the station, but perhaps the Times ought to be more selective about who it chooses to advertise. For me, the advertisers and the Times should reflect the same concerns regardless of the commercial value that a particular advertiser could bring to the station.

The station is great, really enjoyable and engaging, but they seem determined to make listening almost impossible. After nearly a month we still can’t play it directly through Google Home - it still plays X Radio instead; also, you can’t cast from within the app so as an iPhone user I can’t cast it and therefore hear if I move away from my phone. Additionally, you can listen to shows that have already broadcast, but only if you stream as you listen, which I can’t do as I usually work in remote areas without WiFi or any signal at all. It’s not so good I’m prepared to bust my data allowance listening to earlier shows in the rare event I have 4G - why can’t I download them at home to listen to while out? When you open the app it will be stuck on the last show you listened to, even if that was live and no longer broadcasting, you have to shut down the app and re-open it to get to the correct show. And why can’t I rewind a show to listen to a bit again or that I may have missed? Come on, Times, you had both the time and the resources to make more than a perfunctory app, albeit a very pretty one. Get your act together or I will very soon be a former TimesRadio listener - I just don’t need to work so hard to be entertained when there are so many very good podcasts so readily available.

I discovered Times Radio when I bought a new car a year ago It was on the dab radio and I started listening to Times Radio. I even emailed them to say how much I enjoyed it and received a nice response. However, I felt that a “woke’ agenda was creeping in. I could even tolerate that but I then heard a financial ‘expert’ on the show, named as Vicky Pryce. I wanted to know if Times Radio was using someone convicted of perverting the course of justice and subsequently jailed, along with Chris Huhn. I emailed. No response. I phoned twice and got no reply. I emailed again…nothing. It seemed to me that Times Radio. Lives responding to praise but kept quiet when asked the simple question, was the woman who appeared on one of your shows the Vicky Pryce who was jailed for perverting g the course of justice? Then I noticed and article in the Times on-line featuring the very person I’d messaged Times Radio about and it seemed to be a determined attempt to rehabilitate the woman and therefore quite possibly a Times agenda. I tuned out after not receiving any response and, I must say, feel better for it as the constant morning chortling with PC Stig Abell and Aasnah Mir who laughs at EVERYTHING had started to get annoying too, along with the seemingly increasing number of adverts. GB News has a lot more going for it