DAB radio stations, can you get Radio 2 & Radio 4 in Europe?

[RustyRuss]

Well can you get DAB radio 2 & radio 4 in Europe, specifically France, instead of all their totally POO radio stations?! I can get by in French but French radio is truly awful!! ALMOST ( but not quite) as bad as Italian T.V. which is unbelievably crap!! If I can what frequency do I need to tune to?

 

[Soycd]

DAB digital radio is a terrestrial technology using land-based transmitters. You can only listen to stations when you are within their transmission range. You might be able to get 2 and 4 on the BBC Sounds app.

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[Figaro]

You would need to stream those channels from BBC Sounds, DAB transmissions won't reach across the channel

 

[royandsharont]

We couldn’t get it in a lot of the places in Scotland, so I doubt you’ll get it in France unless you do so by the internet.

 

[bladerunner]

I stream via phone and bluetooth to radio - not a huge data use

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[Lenny HB]

You can get them in Calais depending on weather conditions but nowhere else.

 

[Otter Spotter]

If you have an iPad maybe you can use the Radio UK app ? There are many radio stations on there, including 2&4

 

[Mike800966]

We always take an elderly portable radio ..long wave is receivable when stationary below bordeaux.
We used to listen to the end of the R4 pm programme down on the algarve but the skip seemed to change suddenly just before the six o clock news.
It'll be a sad day when those seemingly irreplaceable valves at Droitwich finally expire.
How do the French seem to be able to stay on long wave with such strong signals?
Mike g8jxs

 

[funflair]

As bladerunner says, we also stream from BBC sounds and Bluetooth to the headset

 

[Barti Ddu]

We stream Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music in Europe from our phones using Android Auto through a Sony Double DIN head unit.

You need a data SIM in your phone (although not necessarily a UK one like you need for BBC iPlayer - a French or Spanish one will work fine without need of a VPN for BBC Sounds), and the data required for audio streaming is relatively small.

Android Auto (or Apple Carplay if you are an iPhone user) is a game changer for music and sat navigation when on the move.

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[philann]

We stream from our phones, no special data sim needed. Uses very little data. Only thing that doesn’t play is live sport. Although Test Match Special does have a workaround on the web page.

 

[chesterfield hooligan]

We use the Smooth app a verity of stations a bit of everything and as said don't use to much data.

 

[JockandRita]

If within range, we listen to Classic Gold radio coming in via the satellite dish. If not, we stream it in from the App on the Firestick, or via the App on the tablet, all of which we can then connect to a Bluetooth speaker.
BBC Radios 2 & 4 are available also.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[jumar]

I stream via phone and bluetooth to radio - not a huge data use

Me too....still love BBC Radio although we have lived outside the UK for 25 years, nothing compares...(Sinead O'Connor 1990)

 

[EuroTrotters]

I stream via phone and bluetooth to radio - not a huge data use

us too

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[RustyRuss]

Thanks guys! Streaming looks likely to be the winner then. Really appreciate your time!!

 

[The Wino]

You can get them in Calais depending on weather conditions but nowhere else.

I seem to recall that you can on the French coast near the channel Islands as well

 

[Mick and Ruth]

Bluetooth to phone listened to it all round Europe if you listen to Pop quiz with Ken Bruce on greatest hits radio when finished jump to BBC sounds and can rewind to 10:30 and listen to Vernon Kay and Ten from the Top so passes 40 mins

 

[Mike800966]

Slowly coming into the 20th century- have been very impressed with streaming here in UK. Boom lite is great!!
What convinced me is that apparently it takes about 60Mb of data per hour to stream audio. That would give me 50 hours a month off my 3Ghz allowance, so I will see how it works out
I will still take the LW radio with me though!
Mike