BBC World Service
World Service must be fully state-funded to counter disinformation, say BBC bosses
Ministers must cover full costs of championing western values abroad, senior BBC figures to argue
Michael Savage Media editor
12, Mar, 2025 @6:00 AM
Ahmed Rajab obituary
Other lives: Broadcaster and journalist with a broad knowledge of African politics and economics
Talal Rajab
05, Mar, 2025 @7:41 PM
Benjamin Franklin foresaw the US's descent into despotism | Brief letters
Brief letters: Founding father’s wisdom | The cost of war | World Service integrity | A teacher’s backhanded compliment | Insolent and ignorant
05, Feb, 2025 @6:03 PM
Peter Fraenkel obituary
Other lives: Radio broadcaster who began his career in Africa before joining the BBC, rising to be controller of its East European Services
Graham Mytton
03, Feb, 2025 @1:07 PM
David Page obituary
Other lives: First editor of the BBC Pashto language service and chairman of the charity Afghanaid for 10 years
William Crawley
29, Dec, 2024 @5:09 PM
For more than 50 years the BBC’s Somali service has been broadcasting an anti-colonial message – without realising it | Mohammed Hirmoge
The instrumental theme tune is popular, catchy and authoritative – perfect for the coloniser’s news service. Unfortunately, everyone knows the lyrics
Mohammed Hirmoge
24, Dec, 2024 @3:00 PM
Dan Zerdin obituary
Other lives: BBC World Service producer with a particular interest in classical music
Ian Gillham
01, Dec, 2024 @4:24 PM
The week in audio: Surviving Politics With Michael Gove; In the Studio; Up in Smoke; Unfit for Service – review
The ex-Tory minister talks shop; artist Jonny Banger enthuses about his activism; Mei Mac and Adam Buxton lift a spooky drama; and a harrowing look at the US military’s attitudes to homosexuality
Miranda Sawyer
26, Oct, 2024 @4:00 PM
BBC World Service retreat ‘helping Russia and China push propaganda’
BBC director-general Tim Davie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast unchallenged
Jane Clinton
13, Oct, 2024 @6:09 PM
The week in audio: Matt Chorley; Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order; In The Studio: Laurie Anderson – review
5 Live’s new politics show gets off to a solid start; the never-boring story of New Order is retold. Plus, Laurie Anderson on knob-twiddling
Miranda Sawyer
07, Sep, 2024 @4:00 PM
BBC lessons for girls in Afghanistan | Brief letters
Brief letters: World Service education | Storm names | Outdoor smoking | The Who v Oasis | Men’s hair
03, Sep, 2024 @3:16 PM
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
Miranda Sawyer
27, Jul, 2024 @4:00 PM
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