LBC: UK, World & Breaking News

4.2
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About this app

Welcome to the official LBC news app
Stay on top of the latest news, breaking stories, and insightful opinions from award-winning journalists like Nick Ferrari, James O’Brien, Andrew Marr, Lewis Goodall, and more. With LBC, you can read, watch, and listen to top stories and in-depth discussions on everything from current events, national headlines and political debates to global affairs, business, and tech. LBC is your all-in-one platform for trusted news, current affairs and live UK radio. Keep up with the headlines you care about most with LBC - Leading Britain’s Conversation.

Whether you're into political deep dives or curious about the latest news from Silicon Valley, stay in the know with LBC. With the LBC app, you can read breaking news, listen live on radio, or catch up on your favourite shows - all in one place. Download LBC today and get UK & World news on your terms.

Why download the LBC news app:

📰 Customise your news feed
With LBC, you control your news. Stay informed on politics, government updates, trending global stories, and public opinion - in the format you prefer. Personalise your feed to follow the topics and opinion pieces that matter most to you, and easily add, remove, or reorder stories to match your interests.

📰 An award-winning lineup
Get access to insightful commentary and expert opinions on breaking UK news from LBC's all-star lineup, including Nick Ferrari, James O’Brien, Andrew Marr, Lewis Goodall, Shelagh Fogarty, Ian Dale, Tom Swarbrick, and more.

📰 Never miss a headline
Stay in the loop with push notifications delivering the latest stories, headlines, and breaking news straight to your device. Get real-time updates on UK politics, breaking news, and urgent national events as they happen.

📰 News, your way
Whether it’s live radio, articles, or podcasts like “The News Agents” or “The Rest is Politics,” LBC has you covered. Discover the latest news in whatever format suits you best. Listen to live political radio, stream radio debates, or catch up with the latest news podcasts - all in one place. Perfect for political enthusiasts and radio listeners seeking clarity and depth.

Download the LBC app to read, watch, and listen to live radio coverage of UK news and world affairs today. Join millions of users who rely on LBC as their go-to source for political updates, audio journalism, and live talk radio.
Updated on
Jul 29, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 3 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.2
5.83K reviews
Justin Parker
July 16, 2025
The radio playback becomes extremely unstable if there's any interruption to the Internet connection or Bluetooth connectivity. It easily goes into a vicious loop of stopping and starting rapidly which you can observe directly. This should be trivial to reproduce. Hopefully it can be fixed soon because besides the annoyance of having to restart the stream, it clearly uses a heap of battery power while it's in a tight infinite loop of trying to play and stopping.
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Mark Batcheldor
July 3, 2025
Is ok but could be better. My other radio app is set up so I open the app and one click and I have LBC on. With the LBC app you open the app and then have to click 'listen' and then 'live' . In a world where we demand speed of response two or three clicks to get where you want can be frustrating. The rest of the app seems good but for live radio I will be sticking with my old trusty radio app.
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Global Media & Entertainment
July 3, 2025
Hi, thank you for your review. We appreciate your feedback and ideas as we are always looking at ways to improve user experience. We’ve shared your comments with the digital Product team. Thanks.
sam samuel
June 3, 2025
I stayed with the lbc app rather than global player, because it (global) had issues with my choppy data signal, where it wouldn't just carry on playing once it reconnected. The new lbc app has that same problem. Also, if I download a catchup program and start it playing, I don't expect it to have problems if my data signal drops because the whole app locks up whilst it tries to reconnect, despite the show being offline. Poor effort.
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Global Media & Entertainment
June 3, 2025
Hi, thanks for leaving your feedback. If you would like to speak to us, please email [email protected]. Quoting reference: 503445 Thank you.

What’s new

This major update brings you the news, your way. Introducing news topics you can add, remove and re-order, new Video, Opinion and Callers sections and the ability to Search all LBC content.