Absolute Radio: Discover real music

For copyright reasons, we're unable to include full music tracks in our podcasts. We're working with the record companies to allow us to do more in this area.

Most of our podcasts are high-quality mono MP3s. Some of the more carefully-crafted are in stereo.

To get them available as soon as we can, many of our podcasts are generated automatically. We edit out things that might date, like the news, the ads, and the travel - which can result in some odd-sounding editing.

No: you'll normally find just one commercial message in each podcast, which pays for the service.

Absolute Radio podcasts are subject to
our copyright notice. Please do not redistribute these podcasts on your own servers or BitTorrent: we rely on accurate download figures for our advertisers. So, no.

No. If you just want a section of our podcast - a guest interview from an old podcast, for example - then we'd be happy to produce and host these for you if you ask nicely.

If you want to use short samples of the speech within our podcasts, then go for it: as long as you're not selling it, and as long as you don't claim that we're endorsing your work (unless we are). But let us know what you're doing, and we'll probably link to you if you're doing something cool. However, we can't give you any permission to use the short snippets of commercial music you'll find in our podcasts, though: speak to the friendly record companies and see if they let you. We think we know what the answer will be, but there's no harm in asking.