@jeffmartins@masto.ai
Thanks very much for your attempt at help! I just wanted to stream their world radio as I would get it if I had shortwave, or as I used to get it on public radio stations in various other places I've lived. I CAN get Newshour locally over the air, but of course the are a slew of other things I like to hear, like Outlook as one example.

I know that somebody somewhere has to pay for BBC production costs and it does bother me that my thirty or so years of listening enjoyment was footed by UK taxpayers who owe me nothing at all.

Were the Beeb to set up a phone application to listen to their world radio service with a periodic fee, I'd gladly sign up. (Well, I'd have to ponder it for a bit as the quality has slowly gone down the last few years, but most likely yes unless the cost was ridiculous.) But to suddenly block my listening until I'd somehow figure out how to click through an advertisement-- that was so amazingly rude and unexpected that I just deleted the application in a fit of pique. And I don't think I'll put it back, either.

They could do a streaming version for only those who sign up for it that includes inline advertising, as a number of podcasts do. Leo Laport's "TWiT" network pulls in millions of dollars a year via that method. I would not be bothered by that because I would know that my payment was my ears and could walk away at any time.