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About BBC Radio 5 Live

Listen online to the internet radio of BBC Radio 5 Live, the most prominent news source in the UK among the radio listeners' community, specializing in broadcasting breaking news from BBC News. It also satisfies the news cravings of the wide and passionate sports fan community throughout the United Kingdom with live sports coverage. Radio 5 Live schedule covers nearly all major UK-related sports events. In cases of concurrent major sports events, the broadcaster's sister station, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, assists in providing coverage for multiple sports events simultaneously. Additional programmes in the schedule include interviews, phone-in discussions, and weather reports. BBC 5Live offers an array of morning shows to its listeners on weekdays, with two presenters from the breakfast team selecting topics from national and international news and sports from 6am to 9am. Radio Five Live doesn't leave its listeners without a morning programme on weekends either. On Saturdays, the breakfast show airs from 6am to 9am, and on Sundays, it runs from 7am to 10am.

BBC Radio 5 Live slogan: "The Voice of the UK"

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Postal address: BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA

Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/5live
Phone: +44 0808 590 9693
WhatsApp: +44 0808 590 9693
SMS: 85058

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DigitalTV: Freeview - Channel 705, Freesat - Channel 705, Sky - Channel 0105
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News about BBC Radio 5 Live

Gordon Smart to host weeknight show on BBC Radio 5 Live
Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Gordon Smart is the new host of BBC Radio 5 Live’s late show, Monday to Thursday 10pm-1am.More >>
ontheradio.co.uk - 13.12.2023
Colin Murray moves from weeknights to weekends at BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live’s Colin Murray is swapping weeknights for weekends to host two new shows. The former Fighting Talk host will be on-air Sunday 10am till 2pm and Friday afternoons 2pm till 4pm starting on January 12th 2024.More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 24.11.2023
Colin Murray to host Sunday morning sport show on BBC Radio 5 Live
Colin Murray is moving from his late weeknight programme to host a new show on Sunday mornings, 10am-12pm from 14 January.More >>
ontheradio.co.uk - 24.11.2023
BBC Radio 5 Live journalist Helen Place dies after short and sudden illness
Tributes have been paid to radio journalist and newsreader Helen Place who has died after a short and sudden illness. Helen died on Saturday, just a couple of weeks after a cancer diagnosis. She worked at the BBC since 2005, most recently in the Money and Work team at Salford.More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 15.11.2023
BBC to create four new commissioning roles in Network Radio
Four new roles are being created across BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live in Commissioning.More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 12.09.2023
Helen Skelton leaves BBC Radio 5 Live for family reasons
Helen Skelton told her BBC Radio 5 Live listeners this morning that she is leaving the station to spend more time with her children.More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 13.08.2023
Rick Edwards to host Fighting Talk following Colin Murray departure
BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast co-host Rick Edwards is the new presenter of Fighting Talk. Rick will take over the show when it returns in September following Colin Murray’s decision to leave the show at the end of the last season.More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 08.08.2023
Gordon Smart returns with weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live
Journalist and broadcaster Gordon Smart is joining BBC 5 Live with a brand new Sunday evening show which will broadcast from Glasgow. Gordon will be on-air every Sunday from 8pm – 10pm starting on July 16th with an insider’s take on the biggest news and sport stories of the week...More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 29.06.2023
How Do You Cope? … With Elis and John returns to BBC Radio 5 Live
Mental health podcast How Do You Cope?… With Elis and John is heading back to BBC Radio 5 Live for a fourth season. Elis James and John Robins will be back on Tuesday 6th June with a host of new celebrity guests...More >>
radiotoday.co.uk - 01.06.2023

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BBC Radio 5 Live's programmes19

01:00 - Dotun Adebayo
19/03/2024
Dotun Adebayo with your calls and discussion through the night.
05:00 - Wake Up to Money
Childcare challenge
News and insight from the business world.
06:00 - 5 Live Breakfast
19/03/2024
Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards with unique stories, and the biggest news and sport.
09:00 - Nicky Campbell
19/03/2024
Nicky Campbell takes your calls on the day's talking points.
11:00 - Naga Munchetty
19/03/2024
Naga looks into issues within the family court system. Plus the latest news.
13:00 - Nihal Arthanayake
Cynthia Erivo & Wunmi Masaku
Nihal's guests include Cynthia Erivo, Joe Wicks and Max Beesley
16:00 - 5 Live Drive
19/03/2024
A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell.
19:00 - 5 Live Sport
19/03/2024
Eleanor Oldroyd presents the day's sports news.
19:30 - 5 Live Olympics
Path to Paris
Eleanor Oldroyd and Aimee Fuller look ahead to the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris.
21:00 - 5 Live Sport
Euro Leagues, 19/03/2024
John Bennett is joined by Guillem Balague, James Horncastle and Kristof Terreur.
22:30 - Gordon Smart
19/03/2024
Gordon Smart with late night conversation and in-depth interviews.