The BBC’s Radio 5 Live audience has jumped by more than half-a-million weekly listeners, according to new industry audience figures, but its local stations have fallen by almost 300,000 weekly listeners.

Radio 5 Live has 5.24m weekly listeners, up from 4.73m last year, latest RAJAR figures for the three months to the 23 June show.

BBC local radio figures fell by 280,000 listeners year-on-year in the second quarter of 2019, falling from 7.87m over the same period last year 2018.