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Articles about BBC External Services
An unrivalled reputation for speaking the truth
Published 14 November 2022
A run-through of the history of the BBC World Service
Time in Broadcasting: Automatic time switching of BBC External Service programmes
Published 21 October 2022
Part two of a series on how time is measured and broadcast by the BBC
BBC Transcription Service
Published 10 June 2022
Behind the scenes of a vital but barely known part of the External Services
Albania on the blink
Published 12 July 2018
The Guardian mourns the closure of the BBC Albanian Service in 1967
Czechoslovakia – a distraction?
Published 9 April 2018
Did the BBC’s External Services help, hinder or just inform the revolution in Prague in 1968?