BBC Radio Widget

Simple, useful, unobtrusive, clear, complete! THANKS! :-)

Works nicely in the background here on Lion. Happy that the author keeps updating this widget to adapt to changes on the BBC side of net broadcasting. Current version is 4.7 from February 2015 and can be downloaded from the "Phantom Gorilla" blog of the author. If I was allowed one wish: an audio recording feature would be so cool...

Version 4.21 available from the developer's website.

This hogs and crashes my iMac. I really tried to get this to work because I need a BBC streamer. Sadly this isn't working for me.

I'm deleting this badly written app. It freezes my Dashboard and I get that pesky Adobe security warning (freezes also). Seems there are mixed results with this widget. For me, it's a Dashboard killer.

Seems to be something broken here. When I try and play a station the progress wheel spins round for a while and then just stops. If I switch to the Finder there is a window in the background with the title "Adobe Flash Player security", and some text in it referring to the widget but with no buttons or indeed any other way of interacting with the dialog. Needless to say I don't get to hear anything either!

RealPlayer v11.1 seems to be working fine with this widget. Until now, we had to use RealPlayer v10 because v11.0 produced audio-dropouts. But I tried 11.1 and had no issues so far. Maybe the developer can give a quick note to confirm this and update the "requirements" section.

Great widget, love the BBC. Since RealPlayer is pretty much dead. I can't see why they can't switch to Flash player or some other streaming audio format (mp3?) built into Quicktime/ Flash. I resent having to install stupid Realplayer just for this.

Great for BBC fans. Easy set up.

Finally gets around the Realplayer limitation meaning you can close the Dashboard and continue to listen. Excellent little widget includes all the regional BBC radio stations and a mini browser showing the schedule for the playing station.

I really like this widget. Very quick and very simple. But am I the only one with some trouble? I can't connect to the World Service (I'm in germany, don't know if that matters). It worked this morning, than the stream suddenly stopped. Tried Rebooting but that didn't help. I use v3.4 on an MBPro OS 10.5.6, RealPlayer 10 is installed. All the other streams work. I can't figure what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions?

Great, but doesn't work with Leopard. When hiding dashboard the music stops.

I'm quite pleased with this widget. Plenty of stations, both national, regional and local. A tad slow when changing the stations, but it might have to do with connecting servers. I can live with it though. It would also be nice if we could change the stations from the widgets front and maybe a quick pick of a few favorite stations. I'm also hoping for a widget for RTE ;-) Nice work Hawkman, thanks.

This is a great widget. It works smoothly on my MacBook running 10.4.6 One Problem: If a put more than one of this widget on the dashboard and set each to a different station, they all play the same station (The last station I set). I guess I'm stuck with changing the radio station in preference menu. Thanks for a great widget!

does what says on the box. nice and simple widget! well done!