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Prime Radio Stations
Streams are
Real Audio in
all cases: Some have Windows
as well.

ABC, Australia
Streams list:
Radio Australia
News stream

ABC, Anerica
(Links to audio)
BBC:

World Service:
Live stream:
World Service bulletins
World Service
Business Reports:
UK -Radio 1:
UK -Radio 2 :
UK Radio 3:
UK--Radio 4:
UK Radio Five Live:
Radio 1 stream:
Radio 2 Stream:
Radio 3 stream:
Radio 4 stream (FM):
Radio 4 stream (AM):
Radio 5 stream:

CBC,Canada
Links to audio streams:
Hourly newscast:

US National Public Radio:
News

Voice of America:
Audio News reports:

WORLD RADIO NETWORK ((listeners area has on-demand audio reports from various broadcasters from round the world)

ZDTV Radio
Technical news -home page

Music Streams
(Classical):
King (US)
RTE Lyric FM (Ireland):
WQXR (links to stream):

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This site has been constructed for the PC rather than the Apple Mac

Pc browsers are now available free via either downloads or from Computer Magazine CD's, so we have worked on the basis that users of this site will have either IE or Netscape in Versions 4 or above. If not they can be downloaded from Microsoft or Netscape

We have however tried to ensure that nothing crucial will be lost with versions back to 2 nor with other browsers such as Opera
(Good shareware from a Norwegian based company taking up around 2Mb as opposed to 20 Mb or more for the full versions if IE5 and the latest Netscape if you count the plug-ins that come with them)

The main benefit we have found from IE and Opera is that they link to anchors within a table in a page whereas Netscape only goes to the page if the anchor is in a table as ours are. Thus our archive links take you all the way with IE/Opera and only to the page in Netscape. Similarly Netscape does not load background images inside a table whereas IE does so the looks of this site will be different (Netscape for white background).

Again basic MP3 software is widely available either free -note that Real Player handles MP3's as well as streaming audio-- see next column--or as modestly priced shareware from computer magazine Cds or downloads.
Some sites for the most popular player-software are (alphabetical order not preference- Winamp is probably the most widely used and is the smallest download as well as being free):

Cool Edit - now taken over by Adobe: link will redirect to Adobe Audition

Jukebox From Real com. Basic version is free but de-Luxe is just under 30 USD

MusicMatch Has a free basic version and de-luxe at just under 30 USD.

Winamp 700 kb (Free)

Real Networks is currently the leader in terms of streaming audio (and video) although Microsoft has not given up on its efforts to unseat Real with its Media Player. Indeed in December it announced new partnerships with General Instrument, a leading maker of cable-TV set-top boxes, and Texas Instruments which is to release a new semiconductor chip for use in portable audio devices that would be compatible with Microsoft's technology.

To take full advantage of station on the Internet, you really need both players

The basic Real player is available for free download from Real (around 3.5Mb) :It will allow you to play but not record Real audio. To record you have to pay for the Real Player Plus just under 30 USD (available from the same site). Their site does try and push the de-luxe versions of player and jukebox.

Windows Media Player, now in version 6.4, is available as a free download from Microsoft (around 3.6Mb)