Articles about BBC World Service

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

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

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

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

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

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

BBC Radio newsreader Howard Philpott has died

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

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.