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Published 26 December 2022
A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022
Published 14 November 2022
A run-through of the history of the BBC World Service
Published 22 November 2021
It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation
Published 20 September 2021
The BBC African Service has to move fast when Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence
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
Published 12 July 2012
BLOG: The BBC World Service’s main studios fall silent for the first time since 1940
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.