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53 unusual facts about BBC world service


2013 in Scottish television

Those restored are BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio 5 Live Extra and BBC Asian Network, while BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC World Service remain unavailable while BBC Alba is broadcasting.

Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond

He also reported on LWTV, Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and wrote and presented award-winning documentaries over many years.

Ayesha Faridi

Prior to joining CNBC TV18, she has worked as a reporter and producer with the BBC World Service and MTV India.

Barry C. Smith

He has previously been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at the École Normale Supérieure, and was the writer and presenter of the BBC World Service radio series, The Mysteries of the Brain.

Canaan, Haiti

In June 2013, the BBC World Service's World Have Your Say had a radio programme on Canaan's explosive growth, interviewing a man there who described how people from other displacement camps around Haiti and even other long-term residents of other areas of Haiti were increasingly coming to Canaan despite its lack of running water (there are pump stations, around which there are often fights), lack of a permanent hospital, and lack of transportation options outside daylight hours.

Clive Williamson

('The Science of Sound' was presented by singer and actress Toyah Willcox and broadcast in the UK on Radio 4 and on the BBC World Service.)

Commonwealth of Learning

In 2002, COL awarded the BBC World Service the EDEA for Institutional Achievement for the standard of its English teaching on radio and online.

David Tomchak

The project brought the World Service and the BBC its first non-English speaking, rolling news TV channel and its first fully operational international, multi-media newsroom in early 2008.

Devil's Answer

In addition, the original lineup of the band, with Nick Graham on bass guitar and vocals, recorded their first BBC session on Alexis Korner's World Service Rhythm & Blues show in December 1969.

Eduardo Rózsa-Flores

At the start of the Croatian War of Independence, Rózsa-Flores – known then as Jorge Eduardo Rózsa – worked as a correspondent for the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia and the Spanish unit of the BBC World Service.

Francesca Happé

She has contributed to the public understanding of science with television appearances including BBC QED, Open University, and Horizon, as well as radio interviews for World Service, BBC and ABC.

Front Line Family

Front Line Family was a British radio soap opera initially broadcast on the BBC's North American shortwave service.

Fuchsia Dunlop

She was an East Asian analyst at the BBC World Service and has three books to her name, including the autobiography Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper.

George Urban

He was a radio broadcaster for a number of years for the BBC World Service, leaving and joining RFE in 1960, and becoming its director for a period in the 1980s.

Geraint Howells

They had two children: Gaenor, a newsreader with the BBC World Service, born in 1961 and Mari born in 1965.

Global a Go-Go

Other topics covered include Strummer's radio show, which was broadcast on the BBC World Service (Global a Go-Go) and left-wing political issues Strummer was well known for expounding as a member of The Clash.

Jane Little

In the United States during 1996-7, she was a producer for The World, a radio programme for Public Radio International (PRI) in association with WGBH Boston and BBC World Service.

Jeff Sarwer

Sarwer was the subject of BBC World Service's programme, The Interview on December 19, 2010, in which he candidly recounted his life and his childhood experiences and his relationship with his abusive father.

Jefferson County, Alabama

In February 2011, Lesley Curwen of the BBC World Service interviewed David Carrington, the newly appointed president of the county commission, about the risk of defaulting on bonds issued to finance “what could be the most expensive sewage system in history.”

John Bosnitch

Shortly before Fischer's departure for Iceland, on March 23, 2005, Bosnitch and Fischer appeared on the BBC World Service, via a voice link to Bosnitch's mobile telephone at the Tokyo airport.

John Joseph Haldane

BBC World Service: Agenda, Matter for Debate, Newsround, and The World Today.

John Masouri

In addition, he has contributed to several radio and television documentaries commissioned by the BBC (The Story Of Jamaican Music, and Blood And Fire), Channel 4, and the BBC World Service.

John Mountford

In 1973 he enrolled on a studio manager's training scheme at BBC World Service in London, soon progressing to producing and presenting programmes on the international radio network.

John O'Brennan

He is also a regular contributor to the broadcast media including RTE Radio in Ireland and the BBC World Service.

Jonathan Wheatley

He also had brief spells presenting for Carlton's London Today and Sky News and for the last eight and a half years has presented The World News for the BBC World Service.

Kailahun

BBC World Service, and several other international TV stations are on the air in the city, via satellite.

Karen Boswall

In Mozambique she produced many radio features for the BBC World Service.

Kiraitu Murungi

On 8 February 2006, the BBC World Service aired a conversation between Murungi and former Governance and Ethics Permanent Secretary John Githongo where he appears to be coercing Githongo to drop his investigations on the Anglo Leasing Scandal.

Leo Igwe

In June 2009, as Director of the Center For Inquiry–Nigeria, Igwe was interviewed on the BBC World Service about the Center's efforts to raise awareness about violence and neglect resulting from witchcraft belief, both in the name of its practice and resulting from fear of magic.

Lubor J. Zink

In London, Zink was recruited to make broadcasts to his homeland via the BBC Overseas Service resulting in his family being detained and placed in a concentration camp.

Martin Bright

He worked for the BBC World Service and The Guardian before becoming The Observer's education correspondent and then home affairs editor.

Miranda Green

She has also appeared as a pundit and commentator on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight, BBC World Service Newshour; BBC1 The Politics Show and This Week; BBC Radio 5Live, LBC and BSkyB.

Monica Porter

Much later, in the early 1990s, she made a series of Personal View broadcasts for the English-language BBC World Service.

Nazrin Choudhury

During 2009 she was Series Story Consultant on Bishaash a BBC World Service Trust twenty-four episode television series for Bangladesh and in 2010 she worked with the award winning director Menhaj Huda on his new film Everywhere and Nowhere.

Neutron trail

On March 21, 2011, BBC World Radio contacted Fermi to give an interview regarding the crisis — then taking place — at the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

Nicholas Rankin

He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards.

Nick Luscombe

Nick Luscombe is a British radio DJ, having presented various self-selected new music shows since 1999 for the likes of XFM, BBC 6 Music, BBC World Service, Tokyo FM, NME Radio, Samurai FM and Resonance FM.

Nick Thorpe

Nick Thorpe (born 1960) is the Central Europe Correspondent for BBC News, the main newsgathering department of the BBC, and its 24 hour television news channels BBC World News and BBC News Channel, as well as the BBC's domestic television and radio channels and the BBC World Service.

Nikki Bedi

Early in 2013, Nikki moved to the BBC London 94.9 evening weekend show, (Friday to Sunday), making way for her new weekday show The Arts Hour on the BBC World Service.

She curates, writes and presents The Arts Hour for the BBC World Service, is a regular interviewer on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends, presenting the show when usual host Clive Anderson is absent and has her own weekend show on BBC London 94.9.

Operation Black Buck

The news of the bombing raid was reported on the BBC World Service before either the Vulcan or the last tanker arrived at Ascension.

Optus Aurora

The Australian government's Community Broadcasting Foundation broadcasts a number of services on the platform including the BBC World Service, National Indigenous Radio Service, Vision Australia Radio and the Community Radio Network.

Princess Rym

Earlier in her career she worked at United Nations Bureaus of the BBC World Service, the United Press International, Dubai TV, Bloomberg International, Radio Monte Carlo Moyen Orient and CNN (London).

Rodney M. Bennett

Through the 1980s he freelanced for BBC, in particular on the BBC World Service, and published a book "The Archer-Shees Against the Admiralty" which was a factual account of the Archer-Shee case upon which Terence Rattigan based his play The Winslow Boy.

Shola Adewusi

She has also acted in a number of radio productions for the BBC World Service.

Stephen Salyer

He brought global news to American listeners by forging an expansive partnership with the BBC World Service to make its 24-hour news channel available to PRI’s 800+ stations nationwide.

Tazeen Ahmad

She has been a reporter in news and current affairs in television and radio for over 17 years which includes working for NBC, Channel 4 and the BBC 5 Live and on Radio 4 as well as the World Service.

The Lenny Henry Show

At the end, Wilkins went "legit", gaining a job with the BBC World Service, and a son.

Vietnamese people in Hong Kong

The BBC World Service spurred the choice by making known Hong Kong's 3-month grace period in which to make resettlement applications to a third country.

Viewer Access Satellite Television

From December 2013, CRN, NIRS, RPH, and the BBC World Service will merge with the new satellite platform from the existing Aurora platform that will end at that time.

William Spindler

Before finishing his Ph.D., Spindler undertook some freelance journalism with the Latin American section of the BBC World Service and the Financial Times in Haiti.

XS4ALL

After XS4ALL had launched the online broadcast of Radio B92, its signal was picked up by the Voice of America and BBC World Service and transmitted back into Serbia, where it was then also transmitted via several local radio-stations.

Ziya Meral

He is a frequent commentator in international and British media, including live interviews on Al Jazeera and BBC World TV programs such as World News Today with Kirsty Lang and Zeinab Badawi, and GMT with George Alagiah; BBC World Service radio programs including Europe Today, World Have Your Say and Reporting Religion; BBC Radio's Jeremy Vine Show, the Today Programme and Beyond Belief.


CBC Radio Overnight

Broadcasters whose programming aired on Overnight included Radio Netherlands, Radio Sweden, Radio Australia, Radio Prague, BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Polish Radio External Service, Radio Romania International, and KBS World Radio.

Deborah Mackenzie

Before taking up this role Mackenzie appeared on the BBC World Service for a number of years, and also presented several programmes on classical music, such as the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall.

Derrick Ashong

Ashong has worked with such established artists as Debbie Allen, Janet Jackson, & Bobby McFerrin, and is MC and leader of the pan-African band Soulfège, under the name "DNA", producing works that have aired globally via outlets including MTV Africa, MNet Africa and BBC World Service.

Gareth Mitchell

He presents on the BBC most notably as the host of Click (previously known as Digital Planet and Go Digital) a BBC radio programme broadcast Worldwide on the BBC World Service with Bill Thompson.

Hooke, Dorset

Rampisham Down, the hill immediately northeast of the village, is the site of a transmitter station operated by VT Communications, broadcasting long-range radio signals for clients including BBC World Service.

Kerry McLean

She joined the BBC in 1993 and over the next six years worked in news and current affairs in Belfast on Good Morning Ulster, Glasgow on Good Morning Scotland, London on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and later for the Ukrainian and then Education sections of the BBC World Service.

Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia

The radio station Voice of America and the BBC World Service also had some audiences in Czechoslovakia, and their broadcasts were subject to only occasional jamming.

Neath Guardian

Simon Kelner, editor-in-chief of The Independent, began his career on the Neath Guardian, as did BBC World Service business correspondent Steve Evans, who reported live from the World Trade Center during the September 11 terrorist attacks, and Daily Express rugby writer Steve Bale.

Rufus T. Bush

Among other contributions, the terminal funded construction of Bush Tower, a landmark skyscraper on famous 42nd St. next to Times Square in New York, as well as the building of Bush House, London, an elaborate office building that housed the BBC World Service from 1941 until Jul 2012.

Saima Mohsin

After graduating from university, she freelanced for a year at BBC World Service, Greater Manchester Radio, GLR and Five Live.

Telecommunications in Seychelles

The BBC World Service has a station based in Grand' Anse in southern Mahé which is also listened to in parts of East Africa.

Wyoming Public Radio

Some NPR, PRI and BBC World Service programming includes Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, BBC World Service, and many others.