The BBC World Service has engaged with the UN over the protection of its Iranian journalists and their families since 2017 ...

The U.K. public broadcaster says seven more language services will become digital-only. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The BBC World Service has outlined plans “to accelerate its digital ...

Encompass Digital Media’s Woofferton site in the United Kingdom beams BBC World Service content in shortwave DRM to Europe and beyond. The author is chairman of the DRM Consortium. Her commentaries ...

For a better experience on your device, try our mobile site. Click through for key moments in BBC World Service history, from its beginnings as "Empire Service" to the present as an integral part of ...

It began in 1932 as the “BBC Empire Service” — making radio broadcasts via globe-girdling shortwave to the far-flung territories ruled under the British Crown. Subsequently, what is now the BBC World ...

Three UK House of Commons Select Committees – the Culture, Media and Sport, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees – have called on the Government to sufficiently resource the BBC ...

Marie Gillespie receives funding from the AHRC and ESRC. The BBC World Service is well-known to insomniacs tuning in to Radio 4 in the middle of the night, intrepid travellers, expat Britons and ...

The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday on October 18, 2022. It comes as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences from global entertainment providers, anxieties about the ...

ONE DAY LONGER. SUSAN: ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ARE STEPPING UPSQUEHANNA VALLEY ARE STEPPING TO HELP RESETTLE AFHGAN REFUFEES. CHURCH WORLD SERVICE IN ...

The BBC World Service has published its performance review covering the period of 2016 – 2020. The review, set out in the 2016 Agreement with the Secretary of State for Department for Digital, Culture ...

BBC World Service will cut a net 130 jobs, including in the UK, as it battles to save £6m in the year ahead. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced an extra £32.6m for the BBC World Service for ...

The BBC thanks the NAO for its report which recognises the BBC World Service “plays a vital role across the globe at a time where there is an increasing amount of misinformation and curtailment to ...