Britain’s over-35s are spending more time listening to radio but 15-24 year olds are switching off in favour of internet music services.

That’s according to a new Ofcom study which shows that the UK population listened to an average of 22.5 hours of radio each week in 2011 – a 24-minute increase compared to 2010.

But 15-24 year olds only listened to 17 hours of radio per week – representing a 22% fall in 10 years – and 25 to ...