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World Service – It’s not just for night owls!

Published 6 June 2023

With the coming of BBC Radio 5, UK listeners are encouraged to tune into the World Service for the first time

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Published 26 December 2022

A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022

An unrivalled reputation for speaking the truth

Published 14 November 2022

A run-through of the history of the BBC World Service

Radio on the move

Published 22 November 2021

It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation

Rebellion

Published 20 September 2021

The BBC African Service has to move fast when Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence

Nation shall speak loudly unto nation

Published 4 March 2019

A habit picked up in a hot war carries over into the Cold War: countries shouting at each other over shortwave radio

✎ Farewell Howard Philpott

Published 5 February 2017

BBC Radio newsreader Howard Philpott has died

Farewell, Bvsh Hovse

Published 12 July 2012

BLOG: The BBC World Service’s main studios fall silent for the first time since 1940

648’s final moments

Published 13 April 2011

A short film has been posted to YouTube showing the rather poignant moment as the AEG Telefunken transmitter at Orfordness, Suffolk, is switched off after 29 years of broadcasting the BBC World Service on 648KHz MW.

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Thursday 28 March 2024