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BBC World Service

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

    Other lives
    Ninon Leader obituary

  • QAnon shaman Jake Angeli at the Capitol riot in Washington DC, 6 January 2021.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: The Coming Storm; Now, Where Were We?; Gemma Cairney Gets Classical

December 2021

  • Life jacket on a beach

    BBC names 20 of the people who drowned when dinghy sank in Channel

  • Students at a university graduation ceremony.

    The Guardian view on the British Council: an institution to be valued

May 2021

  • Richie Brave

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Sunday Feature; 1Xtra Talks With Richie Brave; Assignment

    A sombre week as BBC presenters pondered war reporting ethics, George Floyd’s death, and a decade of conflict in Syria

April 2021

  • Jonathan Fryer overcame a difficult childhood and derived strength from Quakerism. In the 1990s he broadcast Thought for the Day contributions on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

    Jonathan Fryer obituary

  • Anne Bristow for Other lives

    Other lives
    Anne Bristow obituary

February 2021

  • Radio Taboo, Cameroon

    The week in radio and podcasts: World Wide Waves; John Keats; World of Curls; Relic Radio

  • BBC HQ

    China bans BBC World News in retaliation for UK licence blow

  • Maria Kastrisianaki

    Other lives
    Maria Kastrisianaki obituary

  • Jim Al-Khalili, host of The Life Scientific

    The week in radio and podcasts: The Life Scientific; The Listening Service; Witness History: CulturePlanB

January 2021

  • Mahmud Kianush

    Other lives
    Mahmud Kianush obituary

    Other lives: Iranian poet, writer and translator who had lived and worked in London since 1974

December 2020

  • Min Birdsey

    Other lives
    Min Birdsey obituary

    Other Lives: Press officer for the Labour party in the 1970s who later moved to the BBC World Service

November 2020

  • Nandita Ghose

    Other lives
    Nandita Ghose obituary

    Other lives: Playwright, poet and producer for the BBC

September 2020

  • Mount Zion Baptist Church burns after being torched by white mobs during the 1921 Tulsa massacre.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Driving the Green Book and The Forum: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    Two shows about US black history deal with issues especially resonant today

April 2020

  • Nick Ferrari, host of Coronavirus UK: LBC Daily Update.

    The week in podcasts and radio: the best coronavirus podcasts

    Podcasts are springing up as never before, from reports by frontline staff to snappy digests of world headlines

March 2020

  • Heather Couper was elected the first female president of the British Astronomical Association, in 1984

    Heather Couper obituary

    Astronomer and television presenter whose passion for her subject captivated audiences

January 2020

  • A bleached section of the Great Barrier Reef.

    The week in podcasts and radio: Drilled; Discovery – Ecological Grief

    Climate crimes and other misdemeanours make for vital, if anxiety-inducing, listening

October 2019

  • Helena Merriman Berlin Wall

    The week in radio and podcasts: Intrigue: Tunnel 29; The Food Chain

    The BBC finally gets a Big Podcast right with its gripping Berlin Wall tale
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