Adverts on BBC World Service Podcasts

Available for over a year

Listening to programmes from the BBC World Service is increasingly being done “on demand”, breaking from the traditional habit of being tied to a radio schedule. But why have advertisements started appearing on some the BBC’s podcasts downloaded outside of the UK? Also, how one female listener did not appreciate hearing what Indian men think in a country that is searching its soul after much publicised acts of notorious sexual assaults against women.