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BBC World Service

July 2024

  • Suella Braverman wearing a headset in an LBC studio with a microphone in front of her.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Suella Braverman on LBC; Dangerous Memories; World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer – review

    Now a stand-in LBC presenter, the ex-home secretary accepts no opinion but her own; an investigation into a lifestyle guru is horrifying and riveting; and the harrowing story of a South African mass murderer is well told

June 2024

  • Composite image showing phones, party leaders, social media logos and the words #elections and #politics

    Five hours a day on Facebook: how voters are keeping up with the election

    Research agency Revealing Reality monitored the news consumption of six voters and found many were now relying on social media

March 2024

  • Kathryn Davies

    Other lives
    Kathryn Davies obituary

    Other lives: BBC World Service current affairs presenter and a newspaper foreign correspondent in south-east Asia and the Middle East

December 2023

  • At the end of the war Rena Stewart was sent to work at the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre in Bad Nenndorf to assist in the questioning of German intelligence officers

    Rena Stewart obituary

    Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who translated Adolf Hitler’s will and later became a journalist

November 2023

  • Toby Murcott stood for election to Herefordshire county council and campaigned for improvements to broadband provision in the Golden Valley

    Other lives
    Toby Murcott obituary

    Other lives: BBC science news reporter and producer on Radio 4 and the World Service

August 2023

  • Harold Briley, journalist, in the Falklands

    Harold Briley obituary

    BBC Latin America correspondent who was the first to break the news that the Falkland Islands had been invaded in 1982
  • Khalid Kishtainy

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    Khalid Kishtainy obituary

    Other lives: Iraqi writer, broadcaster and translator whose newspaper column ran for more than 30 years
  • Gwyneth Henderson in 2014.

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    Gwyneth Henderson obituary

    Other lives: Radio producer who became head of the BBC World Service training operation

June 2023

  • Syed Ashraf broadcasting for the BBC World Service in 1969

    Other lives
    Rashid Ashraf obituary

    Other lives: Broadcaster in Urdu who worked for the BBC World Service for 45 years

April 2023

  • Saida Sherif

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    Saida Sherif obituary

    Other lives: World service broadcaster who in the 1990s volunteered as a relief worker in the Balkans

March 2023

  • Harry Potter author JK Rowling

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling; Dear Daughter; Sisters – review

    The Harry Potter author talks about her struggles with fandom; Namulanta Kombo’s acclaimed World Service show returns; and Kaitlin Prest investigates sibling power struggles

January 2023

  • BBC director general Tim Davie

    The Guardian view on the BBC: more important than ever

    Editorial: The future looks tough for public broadcasting, but its independence must not be compromised

October 2022

  • BBC World Service job cuts<br>Undated file photo of he BBC World Service logo. The BBC has announced plans to cut 382 jobs across its World Service. Under the new plans, BBC Arabic radio and BBC Persian radio will also close. Issue date: Thursday September 29, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story MEDIA BBC. Photo credit should read: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire

    The Observer view on the shortsighted cuts to the BBC World Service

    Removing radio broadcasts in several languages will severely damage Britain’s ability to promote its priorities and values

September 2022

  • Broadcasting House in London, where the World Service is based.

    BBC accused of endangering World Service Vietnamese staff

    Cost-cutting plan to move staff from London to Bangkok will put them at risk of abduction, reporters say
  • Broadcasting House (left) in central London from where the BBC World Service broadcasts

    Hundreds of jobs to go as BBC announces World Service cutbacks

    Corporation to end production of radio output in 10 languages, including Chinese, Hindi and Arabic, as it blames licence fee freeze
  • Director general of the BBC Tim Davie during a conference at the Royal Television Society.

    Move to cut Last Night of the Proms after royal death ‘was difficult’ – BBC boss

    Tim Davie also tells Royal Television Society’s London conference BBC is considering cuts

April 2022

  • Jo Fidgen, Mobeen Azhar and Emily Webb host the new weekly podcast Lives Less Ordinary.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Lives Less Ordinary; Don’t Log Off; Lady Killers With Lucy Worsley

  • The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee joins other writers and correspondents on a recent panel for Dateline London, presented by Shaun Ley.

    BBC set to pull the plug on Dateline London after 25 years of news debate show

March 2022

  • BBC logo and radio broadcast microphone.

    BBC World Service to get extra £4.1m to support Ukrainian and Russian services

    Additional funding ‘covers unexpected costs’ and will help tackle disinformation ‘in the face of propaganda’

January 2022

  • Ninon Leader was born in Hungary and joined the Hungarian section of the BBC World Service in the 1970s

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    Ninon Leader obituary

    Other lives: Hungarian-born writer and broadcaster who worked for the BBC World Service
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